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Textual Intimacy

Autobiography and Religious Identities

  • Hardback
  • 272 pages
  • Publisher: University of Virginia Press
  • 15.8 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

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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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  • Author

    Wesley A. Kort

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University of Virginia Press

  • Published

    May 2012

  • Weight

    477g

  • Page Count

    272

  • Dimensions

    15.8 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780813932767

  • ISBN-10

    0813932769

  • Eden Code

    4026220

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