True Relations: Essays on Autobiography and the Postmodern

by G. Thomas Couser and Joseph Fichtelberg

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313305099
• ISBN13: 9780313305092
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"