{"product_id":"textual-intimacy-autobiography-and-religious-identities-9780813932767","title":"Textual Intimacy: Autobiography and Religious Identities","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Wesley A. Kort\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiven 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 \u003ci\u003eassumption.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47574377562263,"sku":"9780813932767","price":7956.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780813932767.webp?v=1774895289","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/textual-intimacy-autobiography-and-religious-identities-9780813932767","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}