Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in by Dave Tell
By Dave Tell
Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we predict approximately confession and its ubiquitous position in American tradition. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a textual content a confession has develop into essentially the most strong, and most ignored, different types of intervening in American cultural politics. within the 20th century on my own, the style of confession has profoundly formed (and been formed via) six of America’s so much intractable cultural matters: sexuality, classification, race, violence, faith, and democracy.
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