Mitchell, Kaye, <br/><br/>
Writing shame :  contemporary literature, gender, and negative affect / 
Kaye Mitchell. 
 - Edinburgh :  Edinburgh University Press,  (c)2020. 
 - 1 online resource (viii, 288 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781474461863 9781474481250 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Shame in literature.<br/>Affect (Psychology) in literature.<br/>Sex role in literature.<br/>Fiction--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN56  / .W758 2020