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True Relations: Essays on Autobiography and the Postmodern

True Relations: Essays on Autobiography and the Postmodern

Hardcover

Series: Contributions to the Study of World Literature, Book 85

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0313305099
ISBN13: 9780313305092
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Jan 21 1998
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.59
Language: English

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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