Kaye Mitchell

Writing Shame

Gender, Contemporary Literature and Negative Affect

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 232mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781474461856
• ISBN-10: 1474461859
• Artikelnr.: 61330108

Autorenporträt

Kaye Mitchell is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Director of the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. She has published three monographs, most recently Writing Shame: Contemporary Literature, Gender and Negative Affect (2020). Her editorial publications include a collection of essays on the British author Sarah Waters (2013), a special issue of Contemporary Women's Writing (2015) on experimental women's writing, and a co-edited collection of essays (with Nonia Williams), British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s (2019). Kaye is the UK editor of the journal Contemporary Women's Writing, is on the editorial board of Open Gender in Germany and C21 in the UK, and is a series editor of Bloomsbury's 'Contemporary Critical Perspectives' series.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Beginning with stigma
1. Forgetting and Remembering Lesbian Pulp: Shame, Recuperation and
Queer History
2. Cleaving to the Scene of Shame: Stigmatized Childhoods in The End of
Alice and Two Girls, Fat and Thin
3. 'The Dumb Cunt's Tale': Desire, Shame and Self-Narration in
Contemporary Autofiction
4. The Shame of Being a Man: Humiliation and/as Heroism
Conclusion: The Shame is (Not) Over
Bibliography