Textual Intimacy: Autobiography and Religious Identities (Studies in Religion and Culture)

Kort, Wesley A.

ISBN 10: 0813932769 / ISBN 13: 9780813932767

Published by University of Virginia Press, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Textual Intimacy: Autobiography and Religious Identities (Studies in Religion and Culture)
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813932769
• ISBN 13: 9780813932767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Wesley A. Kort, Professor of Religion at Duke University, is the author of Place and Space in Modern Fiction.