What Exactly Is 'Cultural Memoir'? Margo Jefferson Explains

"For me, cultural memoir is a mutating definition. I first began to think in that way when I was working with the boundaries between criticism - literary, cultural, or whatever - which I had done for so many years, and memoir. I realised that I needed, in some way, to merge and to keep those two forms in dialogue, interrogating - as we like to say - each other. So, I began to think of cultural memoir. Initially I was just working obviously with non-fiction but, as you can see, fiction and theatr