University of Exeter, UK

• Introduction. Dangerous Confessions: The Problem of Reading Sylvia Plath Biographically. Confessing the Body: Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Lowell, Ginsberg and the Gendered Poetics of the ‘Real’. ‘To Feel with a Human Stranger’: Adrienne Rich's Post-Holocaust Confession and the Limits of Identification. ‘Your Story. My Story’: Confessional Writing and the Case of Birthday Letters. Bridget Jones’s Diary: Confessing Post-Feminism. ‘The Memoir as Self-Destruction’: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Truth, Confession, and the Post-Apartheid Black Consciousness in Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela. Personal Performances: The Resistant Confessions of Bobby Baker. Death Sentences: Confessions of Living with Dying in Narratives of Terminal Illness. Cultures of Confession/Cultures of Testimony: Turning the Subject Inside Out. How We Confess Now: Reading the Abu Ghraib Archive. Index

University of Exeter, UK

• Introduction. Dangerous Confessions: The Problem of Reading Sylvia Plath Biographically. Confessing the Body: Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Lowell, Ginsberg and the Gendered Poetics of the ‘Real’. ‘To Feel with a Human Stranger’: Adrienne Rich's Post-Holocaust Confession and the Limits of Identification. ‘Your Story. My Story’: Confessional Writing and the Case of Birthday Letters. Bridget Jones’s Diary: Confessing Post-Feminism. ‘The Memoir as Self-Destruction’: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Truth, Confession, and the Post-Apartheid Black Consciousness in Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela. Personal Performances: The Resistant Confessions of Bobby Baker. Death Sentences: Confessions of Living with Dying in Narratives of Terminal Illness. Cultures of Confession/Cultures of Testimony: Turning the Subject Inside Out. How We Confess Now: Reading the Abu Ghraib Archive. Index