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Writing shame : contemporary literature, gender, and negative affect  Cover Image E-book E-book

Writing shame : contemporary literature, gender, and negative affect

Mitchell, Kaye (author.).

Summary: 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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  • ISBN: 1474461875
  • ISBN: 9781474461870
  • ISBN: 1474461840
  • ISBN: 9781474461849
  • ISBN: 9781474461849
  • ISBN: 1474461840
  • ISBN: 1474481256
  • ISBN: 9781474481250
  • ISBN: 1474461867
  • ISBN: 9781474461863
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 288 pages)
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  • Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278) and index
Formatted Contents Note: 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
Source of Description Note:
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 20, 2021).
Subject: Shame in literature
Affect (Psychology) in literature
Sex role in literature
Fiction -- History and criticism
Honte dans la littérature
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature
Roman -- Histoire et critique
Affect (Psychology) in literature
Fiction
Sex role in literature
Shame in literature
Genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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