Kaye Mitchell

Writing Shame (eBook, ePUB)

Gender, Contemporary Literature and Negative Affect

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the intersection of shame, gender and writing in contemporary literatureConsiders the particular intersection of shame, gender and writing in literature produced since the 1990sViews shame as a constitutive factor in the social construction and experience of femininityAnalyses a diverse range of texts from pulp to literary fiction to life writing and autofiction, with a self-reflexive focus on the formal disjunctions produced by/in the writing of shame, and on the shame attending the act of writing itselfOffers political readings of neglected genres (lesbian pulp fiction), highly topical texts (like Kraus's I Love Dick and Knausgaard's My Struggle), and established authors (such as Mary Gaitskill, A.M. Homes, Rupert Thomson)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. It unpicks the complex triangulation of shame, gender and writing, and intervenes forcefully in feminist and queer debates of the last three decades. Starting from the premise that shame cannot be overcome or abandoned, and that femininity and shame are utterly and necessarily imbricated, Writing Shame examines writing that explores and inhabits this state of shame, considering the dissonant effects of such explorations on and beyond the page.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474461870
• Artikelnr.: 72430000

Autorenporträt

Dr Kaye Mitchell is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Intention and the Text: Towards an Intentionality of Literary Form (Continuum, 2008) and A L Kennedy (Palgrave, 2007) and the editor of Sarah Waters: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2013).

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