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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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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
Über den Autor / die Autorin
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.
