Embodied Shame : Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary Women's Writings
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| Title: | Embodied Shame : Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary Women's Writings |
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| Description: | Examines how twentieth-century women writers depict female bodily shame and trauma.How does physical, emotional, and sexual abuse shape women's perceptions of their bodies and identities? How are women's psyches affected by the sexual, racial, and cultural denigration that occurs when women's bodies are represented as defective, spoiled, damaged, or dirtied? Embodied Shame skillfully explores these questions in the context of recent writings by North American women, contributing to work in shame theory and to feminist analyses of the intersections of theories of the body, affect, emotions, narrative, and trauma. By examining popular contemporary fictional and nonfictional texts, including Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory, and Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face, J. Brooks Bouson illuminates how deeply entrenched bodily shame continues to operate in contemporary culture, even as we celebrate the supposed freeing of the female body from the social and cultural constraints that have long bound it. |
| Authors: | J. Brooks Bouson |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Body image in literature, Psychic trauma in literature, Self-perception in literature, Self-perception in women, Body image in women, Abused women in literature, Canadian literature--Women authors--History and criticism, American literature--Women authors--History and criticism, English literature--Women authors--History and criticism, Shame in literature, Women in literature |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Examines how twentieth-century women writers depict female bodily shame and trauma.How does physical, emotional, and sexual abuse shape women's perceptions of their bodies and identities? How are women's psyches affected by the sexual, racial, and cultural denigration that occurs when women's bodies are represented as defective, spoiled, damaged, or dirtied? Embodied Shame skillfully explores these questions in the context of recent writings by North American women, contributing to work in shame theory and to feminist analyses of the intersections of theories of the body, affect, emotions, narrative, and trauma. By examining popular contemporary fictional and nonfictional texts, including Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory, and Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face, J. Brooks Bouson illuminates how deeply entrenched bodily shame continues to operate in contemporary culture, even as we celebrate the supposed freeing of the female body from the social and cultural constraints that have long bound it. |
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| ISBN: | 9781438427270 9781438427287 9781438427393 |
