Description
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.
Examines the state of autobiography in the postmodern world, demonstrating how writers use the experience of fragmentation to forge new kinds of collaborative identities.
About the Author
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.
Book Information
ISBN 9780313305092
Author G. Thomas Couser
Format Hardback
Page Count 184
Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
