Textual intimacy [electronic resource] : autobiography and religious identities / Wesley A. Kort.
2012
BL628.5 .K67 2012eb
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Title
Textual intimacy [electronic resource] : autobiography and religious identities / Wesley A. Kort.
Author
Kort, Wesley A.
ISBN
9780813932781 (electronic book)
9780813932767
9780813932774
9780813932767
9780813932774
Publication Details
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (252 p.)
Call Number
BL628.5 .K67 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/382
Summary
"Given its natural 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 his journey with a meditation on several meanings of the single word assumption."--p. [4] of cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Studies in religion and culture.
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Table of Contents
Telling you who I am
Narrative and self-accounts
Disclosing a religious identity
Religious debtors
Religious dwellers
Religious diviners
Moving out : grounding a religious identity
On my own : taking on a religious identity
Looking ahead : religious identity as being received.
Narrative and self-accounts
Disclosing a religious identity
Religious debtors
Religious dwellers
Religious diviners
Moving out : grounding a religious identity
On my own : taking on a religious identity
Looking ahead : religious identity as being received.