Whispers from the Rice Fields

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Whispers from the Rice Fields

Author: John J. Han
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9788182537453
Publisher: Cyberwit.net
Pub. Date: 2021
Price: $25

Memoirs are often confused with autobiographies. Indeed, whereas an autobiography is a chronology of a writer’s entire life, a memoir tends to focus on one or two specific periods or events in a person’s life. Sometimes memoirs emphasize something that needs to change or has changed based on significant life events. There is a greater focus on inner emotional experiences or interpretive themes as opposed to bare historical facts. People usually read autobiographies to learn about famous or historic individuals, while memoirs are read because they are about a certain subject or novel life experiences. Memoirs are unique because the authors select and shape facts and events in a unique way to explore important themes. This is the reason why memoirs are much more about seeing life from a particular angle rather than encompassing everything that happens. The hermeneutical element makes the story of the writer’s life more valuable to the world of the reader because it intersects with his or her horizons. In other words, those small significant moments shine a light on events that may help shape the broader world outside the text.

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John J. Han
	John J. Han (Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln) is a scholar, poet, editor, and translator. He was born in South Jeolla Province, South Korea, in 1956 and came to America for graduate studies in English in 1988. He currently serves as Professor of English and Creative Writing and Chair of the Humanities Division at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis.