polemoirとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

polemoir (countable and uncountable, plural polemoirs)

1. (countable, neologism) A literary work fusing polemics with memoirism.
   • 2015 May 7, Karen Heller, “The book of Nora: The organic restaurant pioneer pens a memoir”, in The Washington Post‎, archived from the original on 29 July 2015:

     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.

   • 2025 January 14, Sunday Oyeleke, “Sunday Oyeleke: A Rejoinder: Dele Farotimi’s ‘Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System’ as a ‘polemoir’”, in Peoples Gazette‎, archived from the original on 7 September 2025:

     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.

2. (uncountable, neologism) The genre of such works.
   • 2025 February 25, Fintan O’Toole, “How Will the West Look Back on the Crisis in Gaza?”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 27 February 2025:

     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.