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
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2020]
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvss3xkf |
Sommario:
- 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