Writing Shame: Gender, Contemporary Literature and Negative Affect

ISBN-13: 9781474461856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 296 str.

Kaye Mitchell

Opis

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. It unpicks the complex triangulation of shame, gender and writing, and intervenes forcefully in feminist and queer debates of the last three decades. Starting from the premise that shame cannot be overcome or abandoned, and that femininity and shame are utterly and necessarily imbricated, Writing Shame examines writing that explores and inhabits this state of shame, considering the dissonant effects of such explorations on and beyond the page.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Beginning with stigma; 1. Forgetting and Remembering Lesbian Pulp: Shame, Recuperation and Queer History; 2. Cleaving to the Scene of Shame: Stigmatized Childhoods in The End of Alice and Two Girls, Fat and Thin; 3. ‘The Dumb Cunt’s Tale’: Desire, Shame and Self-Narration in Contemporary Autofiction; 4. The Shame of Being a Man: Humiliation and/as Heroism; Conclusion: The Shame is (Not) Over; Bibliography; Index.