In this ‘what's new’ episode of Narrative Now we spoke to Dr Yves Rees about their book All About Yves: Notes on a Transition (2021), just about to be published with Allen & Unwin when this conversation was recorded in August 2021. The memoir recounts the experience of gender transition, and in a move that challenges conventions about memoirs it is written at the age of 30. We chatted to Yves about what it was like to write the book, including some of the methodological and ethical considerations, for example, about privacy when writing about living people, as well as working with life narrative in a way that raises critical questions about what a life narrative should look like.
You can purchase All About Yves in online and in all good bookstores.