G. Thomas Couser, Joseph Fichtelberg

True Relations (eBook, PDF)

Essays on Autobiography and the Postmodern

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313370366
• Artikelnr.: 37828497

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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