A connection

I came across this in one of the pieces I was reading for my current class. It reminded me of some of the content I've read on this website:

Autobiographical narratives appear to speed selves and stories across the globe and deliver them whole. Yet the pathways of globalization that make the circulation of these narratives possible also carry ideology (via both definitions of representation) as a corollary discourse to autobiographical narrative.

This makes for a fair amount of noise in the cultural transit lanes and can easily threaten to overwhelm speech that challenges hegemony. Autobiographical narratives that seek to challenge hegemony must engage with it, and here is where the rhetorical strategies of Jacobs, Menchú, and Satrapi gain traction and find resistance.

Working within the genealogy of political first-person writing, these writers demonstrate how to move readers from the uncritical stance of ideological certainty to an interpretive space of new knowing, including politicized self-knowing, by focusing their narratives initially on their own girlhoods.

In relation to Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Rigoberta Menchú's /, Rigoberta Menchú (1983), and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (published in French in 2000 and in English in 2003)

-- Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall (Girls in Crisis: Rescue and Transnational Feminist Autobiographical Resistance)