True Relations
Essays on Autobiography and the Postmodern
Published on 21. January 1998
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-0-313-30509-2 (ISBN)
Description
The essays in this collection explore new directions in autobiography studies. Examining a wide range of texts, from narratives of suicide survivors, cross-dressers, and people with HIV/AIDS to self-representations in the visual arts, the collection demonstrates how writers have used the postmodern experience fragmentation to forge new kinds of identities.
Postmodern selves, the essayists argue, are relational selves, constructed from the acute need to find identity through collaboration with others. Postmodern autobiography emerges as a search, amid shocks to the stable self, for wider patterns of significance. Of interest to researchers and scholars in autobiography, world literature, and psychology.
Postmodern selves, the essayists argue, are relational selves, constructed from the acute need to find identity through collaboration with others. Postmodern autobiography emerges as a search, amid shocks to the stable self, for wider patterns of significance. Of interest to researchers and scholars in autobiography, world literature, and psychology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
420 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-30509-2 (9780313305092)
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Persons
G. THOMAS COUSER is Professor of English at Hofstra University.
JOSEPH FICHTELBERG is Associate Professor of English at Hofstra.Both have written extensively on issues surrounding autobiography.
JOSEPH FICHTELBERG is Associate Professor of English at Hofstra.Both have written extensively on issues surrounding autobiography.
Content
Introduction by Joseph Fichtelberg Photography and Ventriloquy in Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude by Timothy Dow Adams Art/i/fact: Re-reading Culture and Subjectivity through Sexual Abuse Survivor Narratives by Marie Lovrod Relational Deaths: Narratives of Suicide Survivorship by Richard K. Sanderson From St. Augustine to Paul Monette: Sex and Salvation in the Age of AIDS by George Newtown Relational Selves, Relational Lives: The Story of the Story by Paul John Eakin Autobiography in the Contact Zone: Cross-Cultural Identity in Jane Tapsubei Creider's Two Lives by Joseph Hogan and Rebecca Hogan The Art and Illusion of Spiritual Autobiography by Larry Sisson Multiple Crossings: Cross-Dressing, Cross-Gender Identification, and the Passion of Collecting in Charlotte von Mahlsdorf's Autobiography I Am My Own Woman: A Life by Katharina Gerstenberger Crazed New World: Reflections on Godfrey Moloi's My Life: Volume One by Judith Lutge Coullie All By Myself: Piero Manzoni's Autobiographical Use of his Body, its Parts, and its Products by Gerald Silk