Word: surrogatesã
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...speech and her own relation to it. By doing this, the writer constructed a narrative persona who was set apart from the subject and even from the writer. To Gornick this persona is a necessary aspect of personal nonfiction. In fiction and poetry, characters provide “surrogates?? to whom the writer can ascribe the unacceptable yearnings or embarrassing character flaws they seek to express, while in nonfiction the narrator must reveal these flaws within herself. The flaws cannot be once removed as they are in poetry and fiction...
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