Examining seventeenth-century crises of evidence and genres of evidence on which both literary critics and historians now depend, True Relations explores the notion that we apprehend truth through other people's relations of it and that those relations, and our own relation to them, are a function of social relationships in conflict.

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.

Comprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology, and anthropology.

Volume contains: 189 NY 490 (Guilmartin v. Solvay Process Co.) 190 NY 370 (Kellogg v. Sowerby) 190 NY 24 (Kessler v. Herklotz) 190 NY 132 (Lockhart v. Hamlin)