Meaning of polemoir | Babel Free

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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