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Compelling Confessions
The Politics of Personal Disclosure
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2010
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Compelling Confessions: The Politics of Personal Disclosure is a collection of essays whose shared purpose is to offer an accessible interdisciplinary exploration of the social dynamics behind confessional discourse. As various contributors to this collection demonstrate, confession is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, not only within psychological or therapeutic frameworks or literary analysis, but also in internet discussion groups, in the criminal justice system, in political rhetoric, in so-called 'reality' and interview-style television programming, in writing pedagogy and, increasingly, in the testimonial strain observable in contemporary scholarship. Yet, 'telling one's story' raises questions, not only about authorial intent or authenticity, but also about the pressures disclosure can impose upon its audiences. Far less ubiquitous than confessions themselves, as these contributors suggest, are the critical tools that general audiences might employ in order to better evaluate the rhetoric of personal disclosure. It is, in fact, the shortage of such tools – responses and procedures that could be stated plainly and implemented by any reader or viewer – that Compelling Confessions sets out to address.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-1-61147-042-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-61147-043-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
230
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Foreword: Confession as an Uncontrolled Substance: An Introduction No access
Scripted Subjectivity: The Politics of Personal Disclosure No access Pages 23 - 55
Personal Disclosure and Public Disclosure in Creative Nonfiction No access Pages 56 - 67
Escaping the Panopticon: Vision and Visibility in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Wurtzel No access Pages 68 - 75
Confessional Poetry and National Identity: John Berryman’s Self as Nation No access Pages 76 - 93
Oprah on the Couch: Franzen, Frey, Foucault, and the Book Club Confessions No access Pages 94 - 109
Understanding the False-Confession Phenomenon No access Pages 110 - 129
Rhetoric’s Inescapable Grasp: Strategic Disclosure and the Moment of Truth No access Pages 130 - 144
Waiting Tables, Writing Lives: The ‘‘Truth’’ of Personal Experience in Students’ Academic Writing No access Pages 145 - 161
From Confession to Testimony: Refiguring Trauma in the Classroom No access Pages 162 - 179
Sister Confessor: The Selection and Shaping of Testimonies in Sistren’s Bellywoman Bangarang and Lionheart Gal No access Pages 180 - 201
The Vagina Posse: Confessional Community in Online Infertility Journals No access Pages 202 - 221
