Unfettering Confession: Ritualized Performance in Spanish Narrative and Drama - Softcover

Donald Gene Pace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761845100 ISBN 13: 9780761845102

Publisher: University Press of America, 2009

Synopsis

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 individuals private admission of guilt or a communitys 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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761845100
• ISBN 13: 9780761845102
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100