Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America

AvDave Tell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Del 5 i serien Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2012-09-25
Mått:152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9780271056289
Utmärkelser:Winner of Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award 2013

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Dave Tell is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas.

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“Tell’s Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America provides a critical and fascinating account of the always already ‘confessional anxiety’ that animates American public life and political culture.”—Corey D. B. Walker Journal of American History

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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