Editing Confessional writing (section)

== Global influences and iterations ==
[[File:Robert-lowell-by-elsa-dorfman.jpg|thumb|A photograph of [[Robert Lowell]], a prominent and seminal confessional writer.|189x189px]]Though originating in American literary circles, the confessional writing style has gained global use with the growth of [[Postcolonialism|Postcolonial theory]] and [[Globalization|globalisation]] at the end of the 20th century,<ref name=":5" /> especially throughout [[Eurasia]] and the Middle East, with focuses on personal [[intersectionality]].<ref name=":6" /> Key ideas which global confessional writing explores include globalisation, cultural conflict, and the diasporic experience.<ref name=":11" /><ref name=":13" /><ref name=":14" />

''The Cry of Winnie Mandela'', a novel by [[Njabulo Ndebele]], incorporates stylistic features of the confessional writing genre, including first-person narration and the divulging of personal histories, to critique the [[Apartheid]] regime, and to represent the experiences of 'repression suffered by civilians and concealed by colonial occupying forces.<ref name=":1" />

''Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics'' by Shinsuke Eguchi blends [[Academic writing|academic]] and confessional writing to [[Autoethnography|autoethnographically]] critique and decolonise perceptions of homosexuality and internalised racism, combining academic elements of theory and criticism with literary and memoir-like representations of personal experience.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.peterlang.com/document/1145687|title=Asians Loving Asians|first=Shinsuke|last=Eguchi|editor-first1=Shinsuke |editor-last1=Eguchi |date=27 December 2021|via=www.peterlang.com|doi=10.3726/b17438|isbn=9781433183058 |s2cid=252829912 }}</ref>

[[Souvankham Thammavongsa]]'s poetic anthology ''Small Arguments'' uses features of confessional writing in a 'subtle probing of the world' to depict the refugee experience in Canada and concerns of [[self-determination]].<ref name=":14">Dawson, Carrie.(2017). 'Treaty to Tell the Truth': The Anti-Confessional Impulse in Canadian

Refugee Writing. Canadian Literature 234, 14–182.</ref>

''A Mountainous Journey'' by [[Fadwa Tuqan]] investigates the struggles of the Palestinian people, through a confessional, intimate perspective, to challenge the patriarchal and colonial hegemonies which problematise the endurance of her people, and the place of women in Islamic society.<ref name=":6" />

''[[Beirut Blues]]'' by [[Hanan al-Shaykh]] explores war-torn Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, from the perspective of the young female narrator in confessional modes, including epistolary narratives.<ref name=":11" />