Unfettering Confession: Ritualized Performance in Spanish Narrative and Drama

This book 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.

Dr. Donald Gene Pace is a professor of history and Spanish at Claflin University. He holds two Ph.D.s, in Hispanic literature and history, and an M.A. in political science.