True Relations: Essays on Autobiography and the Postmodern - Couverture rigide

Couser, G. Thomas; Fichtelberg, Joseph

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0313305099 ISBN 13 : 9780313305092

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1998

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0313305099
• ISBN 13: 9780313305092
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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