@article{456965,
      recid = {456965},
      author = {Kort, Wesley A.},
      title = {Textual intimacy autobiography and religious identities /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {University of Virginia Press,},
      address = {Charlottesville :},
      pages = {1 online resource (252 p.)},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/456965},
}