Writing shame : contemporary literature, gender, and negative affect / Kaye Mitchell.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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

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