Male Confessions

Male Confessions

AngličtinaEbook
Krondorfer, Bjorn
Stanford University Press
EAN: 9780804773430
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Male Confessions examines how men open their intimate lives and thoughts to the public through confessional writing. This book examines writings-by St. Augustine, a Jewish ghetto policeman, an imprisoned Nazi perpetrator, and a gay American theologian-that reflect sincere attempts at introspective and retrospective self-investigation, often triggered by some wounding or rupture and followed by a transformative experience. Krondorfer takes seriously the vulnerability exposed in male self-disclosure while offering a critique of the religious and gendered rhetoric employed in such discourse. The religious imagination, he argues, allows men to talk about their intimate, flawed, and sinful selves without having to condemn themselves or to fear self-erasure. Herein lies the greatest promise of these confessions: by baring their souls to judgment, these writers may also transcend their self-imprisonment.
EAN 9780804773430
ISBN 0804773432
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavatel Stanford University Press
Datum vydání 3. prosince 2009
Stránky 312
Jazyk English
Země Uruguay
Autoři Krondorfer, Bjorn