African Memoirs and Cultural Representations

<p>Traditions and cultures represent a set of persisting or prevailing beliefs social practices oral linguistic and values that define an individual's way of life. In other words in memoir writing the emphasis is often to propagate a unilateral need or embrace of self-identity. However the dominant narrative and method of analysis in this study holds the notion and privileges that tradition and cultures imbibed by memoirists are sometimes subverted refashioned or reworked due to the strand of experiences or realities they encounter in different spaces as their narration develops. Thus memoirists embrace indifference and open-mindedness which is also greatly explored in the context of autobiography.</p>