The Ethics of Nonfiction

<p>This book explores issues of identity ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a range of different nonfiction forms ��� including the personal essay and memoir ��� and ethical questions that arise in relation to them such as truth claims the confessional mode counter-narratives. Drawing on the ideas of Bakhtin Nietzsche and Foucault; examples from creative non-fiction writers such as Strayed and Knausgaard; and the founding principles of the originators of the genre Seneca Augustine and Montaigne George Jensen argues that a limited conception of nonfiction leads to a limited view of its ethics. Writing about the truth in an authentic way is more important than ever before ��� and essential to this is the creation of the ethical subject.</p>