Wonderful article by Laurie Penny on the topic: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/07/feminist-writers-dilemma-how-write-about-personal-without-becoming-story
Excerpt: "The author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks of the danger of the “single story”, warning that the attempt to make any narrative universal undermines not just collective struggle but ignores the breadth of human experience."