Writing Shame

Gender, Contemporary Literature and Negative Affect

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AvKaye Mitchell

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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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Utgivningsdatum2020-01-21
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt596 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474461849

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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.

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Beginning with stigma1. Forgetting and Remembering Lesbian Pulp: Shame, Recuperation and Queer History2. Cleaving to the Scene of Shame: Stigmatized Childhoods in The End of Alice and Two Girls, Fat and Thin3. ‘The Dumb Cunt’s Tale’: Desire, Shame and Self-Narration in Contemporary Autofiction4. The Shame of Being a Man: Humiliation and/as HeroismConclusion: The Shame is (Not) OverBibliography

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