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Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, forms of intervening in American cultural politics. In the twentieth century alone, the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and been shaped by) six of America’s most intractable cultural issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-12-04
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
Antal sidor248
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271056296
UtmärkelserWinner of Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award 2013

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ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics1Confession and Sexuality: True Story Versus Anthony Comstock2Confession and Class: A New True Story3Confession and Race: Civil Rights, Segregation, and the Murder of Emmett Till4Confession and Violence: William Styron’s Nat Turner5Confession and Religion: Jimmy Swaggart’s Secular Confession6Confession and Democracy: Clinton, Starr, and the Witch-Hunt Tradition of American Confession Conclusion: James Frey and Twenty-First-Century Confessional CultureNotesBibliographyIndex