Textual Intimacy : Autobiography and Religious Identities
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Overview
Given its affinity with questions of identity, autobiography offers a way into the interior space between author and reader, especially when writers define themselves in terms of religion. In his exploration of this "textual intimacy," Wesley Kort begins with a theorization of what it means to say who one is and how one's self-account as a religious person stands in relation to other forms of self-identification. He then provides a critical analysis of autobiographical texts by nine contemporary American writers--including Maya Angelou, Philip Roth, and Anne Lamott--who give religion a positive place in their accounts of who they are. Finally, in disclosing his own religious identity, Kort concludes with a meditation on several meanings of the word assumption.
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- ISBN-13: 9780813932767
- ISBN-10: 0813932769
- Publisher: University of Virginia Press
- Publish Date: May 2012
- Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.05 pounds
- Page Count: 264
- Reading Level: Ages 22-UP
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