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Confessional crises and cultural politics in twentieth-century America / Dave Tell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rhetoric and democratic deliberationPublication details: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (x, 238 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271060224
  • 0271060220
  • 9780271059341
  • 0271059346
  • 9780271058344
  • 027105834X
  • 9780271060231
  • 0271060239
Other title:
  • Confessional crises and cultural politics in 20th century America
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Confessional crises and cultural politics in twentieth-century America.DDC classification:
  • 306.0973/0904 23
LOC classification:
  • BF634 .T45 2012eb
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Contents:
Confession and sexuality : True story versus Anthony Comstock -- Confession and class : a new True story -- Confession and race : civil rights, segregation, and the murder of Emmett Till -- Confession and violence : William Styron's Nat Turner -- Confession and religion : Jimmy Swaggart's secular confession -- Confession and democracy : Clinton, Starr, and the witch-hunt tradition of American confession -- Conclusion : James Frey and twenty-first-century confessional culture.
Summary: "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"--Provided by publisher
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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"--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Confession and sexuality : True story versus Anthony Comstock -- Confession and class : a new True story -- Confession and race : civil rights, segregation, and the murder of Emmett Till -- Confession and violence : William Styron's Nat Turner -- Confession and religion : Jimmy Swaggart's secular confession -- Confession and democracy : Clinton, Starr, and the witch-hunt tradition of American confession -- Conclusion : James Frey and twenty-first-century confessional culture.

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