The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.
Kate ZambrenoI do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.
Kate ZambrenoI think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were silenced, I want to find for them an escape route.
Kate ZambrenoThe memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."
Kate Zambreno