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

Title
Compelling confessions : the politics of personal disclosure / edited by Suzanne Diamond.
Publication
Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.

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Diamond, Suzanne, 1957-
Description
230 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Autobiography
  • Confession > Political aspects
  • Confession in literature
  • Self-disclosure > Political aspects
  • Self-disclosure in literature
  • Truthfulness and falsehood in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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
  • 9781611470420
  • 1611470420
  • 9780838642658 (alk. paper)
  • 0838642659 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010009600
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library