Writing shame : contemporary literature, gender, and negative affect /
Mitchell, Kaye,
Writing shame : contemporary literature, gender, and negative affect / Kaye Mitchell. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (viii, 288 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
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
9781474461863 9781474481250
Shame in literature.
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Fiction--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PN56 / .W758 2020
Writing shame : contemporary literature, gender, and negative affect / Kaye Mitchell. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (viii, 288 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
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
9781474461863 9781474481250
Shame in literature.
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Fiction--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PN56 / .W758 2020