Wonderful essay, Ann. I just added it to the list of sources for Mennonite memoir on my website. It’s so interesting that you zeroed in on one of my greatest dilemmas in drafting memoir. I feel the need to reach beyond both the Mennonite emphasis on community and the artist’s need for individual self-expression. Perhaps ideas from beyond Europe may help us. At any rate, I mused today on the possibilities of Ubuntu in memoir here:http://www.shirleyshowalter.com/2012/01/16/ubuntu-a-philosophy-of-memoir-writing/
Shirley
Wonderful essay, Ann. I just added it to the list of sources for Mennonite memoir on my website. It’s so interesting that you zeroed in on one of my greatest dilemmas in drafting memoir. I feel the need to reach beyond both the Mennonite emphasis on community and the artist’s need for individual self-expression. Perhaps ideas from beyond Europe may help us. At any rate, I mused today on the possibilities of Ubuntu in memoir here:http://www.shirleyshowalter.com/2012/01/16/ubuntu-a-philosophy-of-memoir-writing/