Serial Memoir

Nicole Stamant is Assistant Professor of English at Agnes Scott College, USA. Her articles on life writing and American literature have appeared or are forthcoming in ARIEL, MELUS, a/b: Auto/Biography, South Central Review, and The Hemingway Review.

1. Introduction: Archiving American Lives in Serial Memoir 2. Serial Structures, The Archive, and Mary McCarthy's 'Perfect Execution of the Idea' 3. Alternate Archives: Maya Angelou's the Complete Autobiographies or the Seriality of a Life Mosaic 4. 'Too Meta to Live': The Materiality of Seriality From Art Spiegelman's 'Maus' to Meta Maus 5. Augusten Burroughs and Serial Culture 6. Conclusion: 'Veneration of the Trace': Archiving American Lives into the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Index