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.
Copyright:
2012
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ISBN-13:
9780813932781
Related ISBNs:
9780813932767
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press
Date of Addition:
05/07/13
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the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia