Sally R. Munt

Queer Attachments (eBook, ePUB)

The Cultural Politics of Shame

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Queer Attachments, Sally R. Munt explores the vicissitudes of shame across a range of texts, cultural milieux, historical locations and geographical spaces. This passionately argued book is an interdisciplinary synthesis of cultural politics, emotions theory and narrative that challenges us to think about the queerly creative proclivities of shame.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351907156
• Artikelnr.: 49398169

Autorenporträt

Sally R. Munt is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex , UK. She has published extensively in cultural studies and is the author or editor of seven previous books including Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identity and Cultural Space (1998) and (as editor) Cultural Studies and the Working Class: Subject to Change (2000). She has given numerous keynote speeches and invited lectures in Europe and the US.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Series editors' preface: After shame
Foreword, Donald L. Nathanson
The cultural politics of shame: an introduction
Queer Irish sodomites: the shameful histories of Edmund Burke, William Smith, Theodosius Reed, the Earl of Castlehaven and diverse servants - among others
Shove the queer: Irish/American shame in New York's annual St Patrick's Day parades
Expulsion: the queer turn of shame
Queering the pitch: contagious acts of shame in organisations
Shameless in Queer Street
A queer undertaking: uncanny attachments in the HBO television drama series Six Feet Under
After the fall: queer heterotopias in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
A queer feeling when I look at you: Tracey Emin's aesthetics of the self
Bibliography
Index.