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Following the Tambourine Man

A Birthmother’s Memoir

By: Janet Mason Ellerby

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Following the Tambourine Man

A Birthmother’s Memoir

By: Janet Mason Ellerby

Set during the sexual revolution of the sixties, this moving work recalls the decade's prodigious effect on a generation of Americans that came of age during that transformative time of changing mores. Janet Mason Ellerby follows the crooked path she took from a protected and privileged childhood and early adolescence to her unplanned pregnancy and banishment and to her daughter's birth and adoption. She then delves into the complex journey embarked on over the next thirty-five years, haunted by her first child's memory and attempting to compensate for her loss. Ellerby crafts an autoethnography, relating and reflecting upon the changes in middle-class American attitudes that informed the conservative suburbs of the fifties, through the political revolution of the sixties, seventies, and into today. In so doing, she provides a personal commentary on the shifts in adoption culture and describes the overlooked heartbreak that many birthmothers endure.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815608896

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9780815608899

Intimate Reading

The Contemporary Women’s Memoir

By: Janet Mason Ellerby

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The Contemporary Women’s Memoir

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Maintaining that the memoir requires a more personal relationship with its readers and critics, Janet Mason Ellerby calls for "intimate readings." She begins this work with her own memoir, narrating a long-held secret-her pregnancy at age sixteen, her life in the Florence Crittendon Home for Unwed Mothers, and the birth and adoption of her first daughter. She goes on to tell about the aftermath of this pivotal time in and the painful consequences of keeping a secret. Included are detailed analyses of more than a dozen contemporary memoirs by American women, all of which share a common purpose: the disclosure of secrets. Ellerby describes the costs of this secrecy and explores the possibilities of breaking intractable codes of silence. It is a study that is germane to the intellectual and e~otional lives of all women. This book is the first serious exploration of a genre that has gained acceptance with an expanding audience of readers. Ellerby maintains that the efforts of memoirists to plumb their painful pasts has cultural significance and precipitates important social work. The memoir joins fiction and autobiography as an important commentary on modem life.

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0815628862

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9780815628866

Following the Tambourine Man

A Birthmother’s Memoir

By: Janet Mason Ellerby

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A Birthmother’s Memoir

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The Contemporary Women’s Memoir

By: Janet Mason Ellerby

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The Contemporary Women’s Memoir

By: Janet Mason Ellerby

Janet Mason Ellerby offers an analysis of the tragic events which have most influenced her writing and explores the relationship of her own narrative to others like it.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815606850

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9780815606857

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