Compelling confessions
Subtitle: the politics of personal disclosure
By: edited by Suzanne Diamond
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Madison, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781611470420
Subjects: Autobiography; Self-disclosure in literature; Self-disclosure; History and criticism; American literature; Truthfulness and falsehood in literature; Confession; Confession in literature; Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: confession as an uncontrolled substance: an introduction / Deborah Holdstein; title: Scripted subjectivity : the politics of personal disclosure / Suzanne Diamond; title: Personal disclosure and public disclosure in creatived nonfiction / Lisa A. Baird; title: Escaping the panopticon: vision and visibility in the memoirs of Elizabeth Wurtzel / Kathy Farqueharson; title: Confessional poetry and national identity: John Berryman's Self as nation / Glenn Freeman; title: Oprah on the couch: Franzen, Foucault, and the book club confessions / Adrian Jones; title: Understanding the false-confession phenomenon / G. Daniel Lassiter, Matthew J. Lindberg, Shannon K. Pinegar, and Lezlee J. Ware; title: Rhetoric's inescapable grasp: strategic disclosure and the moment of truth / Richard E. Miller; title: Waiting tables, writing lives: the "truth" of personal experience in students' academic writing / Christy Rieger; title: From confession to testimony: refiguring trauma in the classroom / Dawn Skorczewski; title: Sister confessor: the selection and shaping of testimonies in Sistren's Bellywoman bangarang and Lionheart gal /Chandra Wells.