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Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America

  • ISBN-13: 9780271056289
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Dave Tell
  • Price: AUD $148.00
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2012
  • Format: Hardback 248 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: linguistics [CF]
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Examines the role of confession in American culture. Argues that 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.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics

1 Confession and Sexuality: True Story Versus Anthony Comstock

2 Confession and Class: A New True Story

3 Confession and Race: Civil Rights, Segregation, and the Murder of Emmett Till

4 Confession and Violence: William Styron’s Nat Turner

5 Confession and Religion: Jimmy Swaggart’s Secular Confession

6 Confession and Democracy: Clinton, Starr, and the Witch-Hunt Tradition of American Confession

Conclusion: James Frey and Twenty-First-Century Confessional Culture

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Dave Tell is an excellent writer and thinker, incorporating provocative archival research and good storytelling, and his Confessional Crises is a welcome addition to any ongoing discussion of genre, confession, and cultural politics.”

—Daniel Patrick Overton, Southern Communication Journal

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