True relations : essays on autobiography and the postmodern / edited by G. Thomas Couser and Joseph Fichtelberg ; prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Couser, G. Thomas.

Fichtelberg, Joseph.

Hofstra University

Series:

Contributions to the study of world literature 0738-9345 ; no. 85.

Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345 ; no. 85

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Autobiography in literature.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

vi, 169 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.

Summary:

Examines the state of autobiography in the postmodern world, demonstrating how writers use the experience of fragmentation to forge new kinds of collaborative identities.

Contents:

1. Photography and Ventriloquy in Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude / Timothy Dow Adams 11

2. Art/i/fact: Rereading Culture and Subjectivity through Sexual Abuse Survivor Narratives / Marie Lovrod 23

3. Relational Deaths: Narratives of Suicide Survivorship / Richard K. Sanderson 33

4. From St. Augustine to Paul Monette: Sex and Salvation in the Age of AIDS / George Newtown 51

5. Relational Selves, Relational Lives: The Story of the Story / Paul John Eakin 63

6. Autobiography in the Contact Zone: Cross-cultural Identity in Jane Tapsubei Creider's Two Lives / Joseph Hogan, Rebecca Hogan 83

7. The Art and Illusion of Spiritual Autobiography / Larry Sisson 97

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 / Katharina Gerstenberger 109

9. Crazed New World: Reflections on Godfrey Moloi's My Life: Volume One / Judith Lutge Coullie 125

10. All by Myself: Piero Manzoni's Autobiographical Use of His Body, Its Parts, and Its Products / Gerald Silk 137.

Notes:

Papers first presented at a conference held at Hofstra University, Mar. 10-12, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0313305099

OCLC:

36590670