This is a
portmanteau word which combines "pater" and "memoir" to describe personal
poems,
essays, graphic narratives,
books and
films about the father. Coined by Andre Gerard, and first used in the introduction to
Fathers: A Literary Anthology, the word calls attention to the rapidly growing body of personal, often critical, responses to fathers. Some scholars have started to use a competing
neologism, “patriography,” to describe such material,[1] but patremoir has the advantage of being both more precise and more inclusive, as well as being easier to pronounce.
References
^Stephen Mansfield (2013) Australian Patriography: How Sons Write Fathers in Contemporary Life Writing
This is a
portmanteau word which combines "pater" and "memoir" to describe personal
poems,
essays, graphic narratives,
books and
films about the father. Coined by Andre Gerard, and first used in the introduction to
Fathers: A Literary Anthology, the word calls attention to the rapidly growing body of personal, often critical, responses to fathers. Some scholars have started to use a competing
neologism, “patriography,” to describe such material,[1] but patremoir has the advantage of being both more precise and more inclusive, as well as being easier to pronounce.
References
^Stephen Mansfield (2013) Australian Patriography: How Sons Write Fathers in Contemporary Life Writing