TY - BOOK AU - Mitchell,Kaye TI - Writing shame: contemporary literature, gender, and negative affect SN - 9781474461863 AV - PN56 .W758 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Shame in literature KW - Affect (Psychology) in literature KW - Sex role in literature KW - Fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2409584&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -