TY - BOOK AU - Gill,Jo ED - T&F eBooks. TI - Modern confessional writing: new critical essays T2 - Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature SN - 9780203449240 PY - 2006/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - American literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Confession in literature KW - English literature KW - Confession KW - History KW - 21st century KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Dangerous confessions : the problem of reading Sylvia Plath biographically / Tracy Brain -- 2. Confessing the body : Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Lowell, Ginsberg and the gendered poetics of the 'real' / Elizabeth Gregory -- 3. 'To feel with a human stranger' : Adrienne Rich's post-holocaust confession and the limits of identification / Ann Keniston -- 4. 'Your story. My story' : confessional writing and the case of Birthday letters / Jo Gill -- 5. Bridget Jones's diary : confessing post-feminism / Leah Guenther -- 6. 'The memoir as self-destruction' : A heartbreaking work of staggering genius / Bran Nicol -- 7. Truth, confession and the post-apartheid Black consciousness in Njabulo Ndebele's The cry of Winnie Mandela / Yianna Liatsos -- 8. Personal performances : the resistant confessions of Bobby Baker / Deirdre Heddon 9. Death sentences : confessions of living with dying in narratives of terminal illness / Ruth Robbins -- 10. Cultures of confession/cultures of testimony : turning the subject inside out / Susannah Radstone -- How we confess now : reading the Abu Graib archive / Leigh Gilmore; Also available in print edition UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203449240 ER -