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dc.contributor.authorCrawley, Karen
dc.contributor.authorManderson, Desmond
dc.contributor.editorTimothy Peters, Karen Crawley
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-12T01:34:39Z
dc.date.available2018-10-12T01:34:39Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.isbn9781138123762
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/978131564863
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/377952
dc.description.abstractThis chapter analyses the scandal over James Frey’s fabrication of the truth in his supposed memoir A Million Little Pieces in relation to Oprah Winfrey and her Book Club in order to reveal the ‘double helix’ of contemporary confession: the external, public dimension pertaining to the content of confession, which reaffirms prevailing social ideology and the internal, affective dimension which ‘disciplines the bodies and souls’ of individuals. The successive confessions outlined in this chapter manifest the connection between confession’s external and internal dimensions as well as the anxiety provoked by their apparent unraveling - an anxiety that can only be meaningfully assuaged by Oprah re-inscribing the viewer in the scene as confessor.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317301608/chapters/10.4324%2F9781315648637-8
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleEnvisioning Legality: Law, Culture and Representation
dc.relation.ispartofchapter8
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom161
dc.relation.ispartofpageto190
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLegal Theory, Jurisprudence and Legal Interpretation
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode180122
dc.titleThe confessor: Oprah Winfrey, James Frey and the logic of confession
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chapters
dc.type.codeB - Book Chapters
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, Griffith Law School
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorCrawley, Karen


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