Confessional crises and cultural politics in twentieth-century America
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Confessional crises and cultural politics in twentieth-century America
（Rhetoric and democratic deliberation / edited by Cheryl Glenn and J. Michael Hogan, v. 5）
Pennsylvania State University Press, c2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index
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Description
Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, forms of intervening in American cultural politics. In the twentieth century alone, 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.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics
1 Confession and Sexuality: True Story Versus Anthony Comstock
2 Confession and Class: A New True Story
3 Confession and Race: Civil Rights, Segregation, and the Murder of Emmett Till
4 Confession and Violence: William Styron's Nat Turner
5 Confession and Religion: Jimmy Swaggart's Secular Confession
6 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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