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Title:

Compelling confessions : the politics of personal disclosure / edited by Suzanne Diamond.

Publisher:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ;

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

230 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Confession in literature.
Self-disclosure in literature.
Autobiography.
Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
Confession--Political aspects.
Self-disclosure--Political aspects.

Other Authors:

Diamond, Suzanne, 1957-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Foreword: confession as an uncontrolled substance: an introduction / Deborah Holdstein -- Scripted subjectivity : the politics of personal disclosure / Suzanne Diamond -- Personal disclosure and public disclosure in creatived nonfiction / Lisa A. Baird -- Escaping the panopticon: vision and visibility in the memoirs of Elizabeth Wurtzel / Kathy Farquharson -- Confessional poetry and national identity: John Berryman's Self as nation / Glenn Freeman -- Oprah on the couch: Franzen, Frey, Foucault, and the book club confessions / Adrian Jones -- Understanding the false-confession phenomenon / G. Daniel Lassiter ... [et al.] -- Rhetoric's inescapable grasp: strategic disclosure and the moment of truth / Richard E. Miller -- Waiting tables, writing lives: the "truth" of personal experience in students' academic writing / Christy Rieger -- From confession to testimony: refiguring trauma in the classroom / Dawn Skorczewski -- Sister confessor: the selection and shaping of testimonies in Sistren's Bellywoman bangarang and Lionheart gal / Katrina Smith -- The vagina posse: confessional community in online infertility journals / Chandra Wells.

ISBN:

0838642659 (alk. paper)
9780838642658 (alk. paper)
1611470420
9781611470420

OCLC:

(OCoLC)562772725

LCCN:

2010009600

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)