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Unfettering Confession: Ritualized Performance in Spanish Narrative and Drama

Unfettering Confession: Ritualized Performance in Spanish Narrative and Drama

Pace, Donald Gene

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ISBN10: 0761845100
ISBN13: 9780761845102
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: Feb 9 2009
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Confessional literature stretches beyond autobiography and overlaps every literary genre. It is eminently dramatic and always performative, it is a hopeful crying out in response to crisis, and a plea for reconciliation with community. It is an individual's private admission of guilt or a community's open plea for mercy, an auricular-ocular confession, and a pervasive human activity that is both heard and seen.

This study introduces two major theoretical perspectives that have been consistently overlooked: the performance nature of confession, and the incorrect classification of confession as only a subset of autobiography. As this book demonstrates, confession is not always autobiographical but is always performative.

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