| Description |
viii, 196 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Dangerous confessions : the problem of reading Sylvia Plath biographically / Tracy Brain -- 2. Confessing the body : Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Lowell, Ginsberg and the gendered poetics of the "real" / Elizabeth Gregory -- 3. "To feel with a human stranger" : Adrienne Rich's post-holocaust confession and the limits of identification / Ann Keniston -- 4. "Your story. My story" : confessional writing and the case of birthday letters / Jo Gill -- 5. Bridget Jones's diary : confessing post-feminism / Leah Guenther -- 6. "The memoir as self-destruction" : a heartbreaking work of staggering genius / Bran Nicol -- 7. Truth, confession, and the post-apartheid Black consciousness in Njabulo Ndebele's The cry of Winnie Mandela / Yianna Liatsos -- 8. Personal performances : the resistant confessions of Bobby Baker / Deirdre Heddon 9. Death sentences : confessions of living with dying in narratives of terminal illness / Ruth Robbins -- 10. Cultures of confession/cultures of testimony : turning the subject inside out / Susannah Radstone |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Confession in literature.
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Confession -- History -- 20th century.
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Confession -- History -- 21st century.
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| Author |
Gill, Jo, 1965-
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| LC no. |
2005004158 |
| ISBN |
0415339693 (hardback) |
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