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Voice/Over: A Memoir Breakout in 7 Movies

By (author) Faith Adiele

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Voice/Over: A Memoir Breakout in 7 Movies opens in the rural American west, following Faith Adieleâ€™s whimsical coming of age as the only multiracial girl in a Nordic immigrant family obsessed with movies and voting. Set on one particular infamous election day, the formally-inventive memoir plays with the screenplay form, casting family members as characters in iconic American movies. Striking visual collages establish her union organizer grandfather, Finlandâ€™s reindeer battalions, James Bond, The Magnificent Seven, and others as unlikely models in Faithâ€™s quest for heroism, identity and the American dream.Â When read together with Her Voice (released simultaneously) Voice/Over provides an innovative â€œbreakoutâ€ performative, a supplemental yet stand-alone praxis that expands the vision of the memoir genre (against capital-â€œHâ€ History and capital- â€œTâ€ Truth) beyond the singular, breaking free of convention, inclusive of hybrid, multiple, always personal/political, and ever-expanding genre/s.Â