polemoir

Definitions

1. A literary work fusing polemics with memoirism.
   countable, neologism
2. The genre of such works.
   neologism, uncountable

Examples

“Nora’s, however, does organic on steroids — not that there would be a trace of those in her food — at what is billed as the nation’s first certified organic restaurant, as she reveals in “My Organic Life: How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape⟳ the Way We Eat⟳ Today,” which is part polemic and part memoir, a polemoir — and no recipes.”

“Taken together, the book is worthwhile as a ‘polemoir’ that seeks to open⟳ up the never-ending space in the classification of modern literary works.”

“To give⟳ some weight to words in what he describes with typically elegant irony as “this mandatory waiting period” before one can speak⟳ of the unspeakable, El Akkad devises a form⟳ that might be called polemoir, a fusion of polemic and memoir.”

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