Compelling confessions : the politics of personal disclosure / / edited by Suzanne Diamond.

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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:230 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: confession as an uncontrolled substance: an introduction / Deborah Holdstein
  • Scripted subjectivity : the politics of personal disclosure / Suzanne Diamond
  • Personal disclosure and public disclosure in creatived nonfiction / Lisa A. Baird
  • Escaping the panopticon: vision and visibility in the memoirs of Elizabeth Wurtzel / Kathy Farqueharson
  • Confessional poetry and national identity: John Berryman's Self as nation / Glenn Freeman
  • Oprah on the couch: Franzen, Foucault, and the book club confessions / Adrian Jones
  • Understanding the false-confession phenomenon / G. Daniel Lassiter, Matthew J. Lindberg, Shannon K. Pinegar, and Lezlee J. Ware
  • Rhetoric's inescapable grasp: strategic disclosure and the moment of truth / Richard E. Miller
  • Waiting tables, writing lives: the "truth" of personal experience in students' academic writing / Christy Rieger
  • From confession to testimony: refiguring trauma in the classroom / Dawn Skorczewski
  • Sister confessor: the selection and shaping of testimonies in Sistren's Bellywoman bangarang and Lionheart gal /Chandra Wells.