The female face of shame / edited by Erica L. Johnson and Patricia Moran.

Other author Johnson, Erica L., 1970- editor.
Other author Moran, Patricia (Patricia L.) editor.
Format Book
PublicationBloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Descriptionx, 268 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Women in literature.
Shame in literature.
Human body in literature.

Contents The other woman: xenophobia and shame / Jocelyn Eighan -- Rape, trauma, and shame in Samira Bellil's Dans l'enfer des tournantes / Nicole Fayard -- A bloody shame: Angela Carter's shameless postmodern fairy tales / Suzette A. Henke -- "Ecrire pour ne plus avoir honte": Christine Angot's and Annie Ernaux's shameless bodies / Natalie Edwards -- Interactions of disability pride and shame / Eliza Chandler -- Colonial shame in Michelle Cliff's Abeng / Erica L. Johnson -- Ancestors and aliens: queer transformations and affective estrangement in Octavia Butler's fiction / Frann Michel -- Daughters of the house of shame / Sinead McDermott -- "Bound and gagged with thread": shame, female development, and the Künstlerroman tradition in Cora Sandel's The Alberta trilogy / Patricia Moran -- Girl world and bullying: intersubjective shame in Margaret Atwood's Cat's eye / Laura Martocci -- Affliction in Jean Rhys and Simone Weil / Tamar Heller -- Coping with national shames through Chinese women's bodies: glorified or mortified? / Peiling Zhao -- Shamed bodies: partition violence and women / Namrata Mitra -- Interrogating the place of lajja (shame) in contemporary Mauritius / Karen Lindo -- Shame and belonging in postcolonial Algeria / Anna Rocca.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013003157
ISBN9780253008633 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0253008638 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780253008558 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0253008557 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN56.5 .W64 F456 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold