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The paper investigates memory narratives in contemporary Latvian and North American life-writing with the focus on Latvian writer Anita Liepa's autobiographical fiction and Canadian writer Alice Munro's short stories. The theoretical framework of the paper is related to the fast developing memory culture after the end of the Cold War in Europe and Latvia as well as globally, and sketches out the theoretical framework of memory writing referring to the studies of Maurice Halbwachs, Pierre Nora, Paul Ricoeur, Aleida...

The genre of travelogue is regarded as one of the most readable in the contemporary North American literature. Its popularity has grown in the latest decades due to the processes of globalization and new technological developments in the world. People travel a lot; new, exotic places become of utmost interest; new typologically various travelogues appear. The question of belonging of travel narrative to fiction or non-fiction remains disputable; the frames of each are very controversial. Thus, the aim of the prese...