Writing shame : contemporary literature, gender, and negative affect /

Through readings of an array of recent texts - literary and popular, fictional and autofictional, realist and experimental - this book maps out a contemporary, Western, shame culture

Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Mitchell, Kaye (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2020]
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvss3xkf
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Introduction : beginning with stigma
  • Forgetting and remembering lesbian pulp : shame, recuperation and queer history
  • Cleaving to the scene of shame : stigmatised childhoods in The End of Alice and Two Girls, Fat and Thin
  • 'The dumb cunt's tale' : desire, shame, and self-narration in contemporary autofiction
  • The shame of being a man : humiliation and/as heroism
  • Conclusion : the shame is (not) over