LEADER 03648nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910462578403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-253-00873-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000357948 035 $a(EBL)1189105 035 $a(OCoLC)850161335 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000886063 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11475235 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000886063 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10816900 035 $a(PQKB)10764584 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1189105 035 $a(OCoLC)845236251 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29060 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1189105 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10704744 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL492065 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000357948 100 $a20130311d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe female face of shame$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Erica L. Johnson and Patricia Moran 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-00855-7 311 $a0-253-00863-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1. Bodies of Shame; 1 The Other Woman: Xenophobia and Shame; 2 Rape, Trauma, and Shame in Samira Bellil's Dans l'enfer des tournantes ; 3 A Bloody Shame: Angela Carter's Shameless Postmodern Fairy Tales; 4 "Ecrire pour ne plus avoir honte": Christine Angot's and Annie Ernaux's Shameless Bodies; 5 Interactions of Disability Pride and Shame; Part 2. Families of Shame; 6 Colonial Shame in Michelle Cliff's Abeng; 7 Ancestors and Aliens: Queer Transformations and Affective Estrangement in Octavia Butler's Fiction; 8 Daughters of the House of Shame 327 $a9 "Bound and Gagged with Thread": Shame, Female Development, and the Ku?nstlerroman Tradition in Cora Sandel's The Alberta Trilogy10 Girl World and Bullying: Intersubjective Shame in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye; 11 Affliction in Jean Rhys and Simone Weil; Part 3. Nations of Shame; 12 Coping with National Shames through Chinese Women's Bodies: Glorified or Mortified? ; 13 Shamed Bodies: Partition Violence and Women; 14 Interrogating the Place of Lajja (Shame) in Contemporary Mauritius ; 15 Shame and Belonging in Postcolonial Algeria; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index 330 $a

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