A01=Donald Gene Pace
Author_Donald Gene Pace
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Product details
- ISBN 9780761845102
- Weight: 163g
- Dimensions: 154 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Feb 2009
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Confessional literature stretches beyond autobiography and overlaps every literary genre. It is eminently dramatic and always performative, it is a hopeful crying out in response to crisis, and a plea for reconciliation with community. It is an individual's private admission of guilt or a community's open plea for mercy, an auricular-ocular confession, and a pervasive human activity that is both heard and seen.
This study introduces two major theoretical perspectives that have been consistently overlooked: the performance nature of confession, and the incorrect classification of confession as only a subset of autobiography. As this book demonstrates, confession is not always autobiographical but is always performative.
Dr. Donald Gene Pace is a professor of history and Spanish at Claflin University. He holds two Ph.D.s, in Hispanic literature and history, and an M.A. in political science.
