Modern confessional writing : new critical essays / / edited by Jo Gill.
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| Superior document: | Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 2 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;
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| Physical Description: | viii, 196 p. |
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Table of 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
- How we confess now : reading the Abu Graib archive / Leigh Gilmore.