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True Relations
Essays on Autobiography and the Postmodern
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Photography and Ventriloquy in Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude
- 2. Art/i/fact: Rereading Culture and Subjectivity through Sexual Abuse Survivor Narratives
- 3. Relational Deaths: Narratives of Suicide Survivorship
- 4. From St. Augustine to Paul Monette: Sex and Salvation in the Age of AIDS
- 5. Relational Selves, Relational Lives: The Story of the Story
- 6. Autobiography in the Contact Zone: Cross-cultural Identity in Jane Tapsubei Creider's Two Lives
- 7. The Art and Illusion of Spiritual Autobiography
- 8. 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
- 9. Crazed New World: Reflections on Godfrey Moloi's My Life: Volume One
- 10. All by Myself: Piero Manzoni's Autobiographical Use of His Body, Its Parts, and Its Products
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors