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Embodied shame : uncovering female shame in contemporary women's writings / / J. Brooks Bouson
Embodied shame : uncovering female shame in contemporary women's writings / / J. Brooks Bouson
Autore Bouson J. Brooks
Pubbl/distr/stampa Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (239 p.)
Disciplina 810.9/3522
Soggetto topico American literature - Women authors - History and criticism
Canadian literature - Women authors - History and criticism
English literature - Women authors - History and criticism
Women in literature
Shame in literature
Abused women in literature
Psychic trauma in literature
Body image in literature
Self-perception in literature
Body image in women
Self-perception in women
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-4384-2739-5
1-4416-2266-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910454894403321
Bouson J. Brooks  
Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009
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Embodied shame : uncovering female shame in contemporary women's writings / / J. Brooks Bouson
Embodied shame : uncovering female shame in contemporary women's writings / / J. Brooks Bouson
Autore Bouson J. Brooks
Pubbl/distr/stampa Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (239 p.)
Disciplina 810.9/3522
Soggetto topico American literature - Women authors - History and criticism
Canadian literature - Women authors - History and criticism
English literature - Women authors - History and criticism
Women in literature
Shame in literature
Abused women in literature
Psychic trauma in literature
Body image in literature
Self-perception in literature
Body image in women
Self-perception in women
ISBN 1-4384-2739-5
1-4416-2266-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The humiliations of the female flesh in Alice Munro's lives of girls and women -- Family violence, incest, and white-trash shame in Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina -- Racial self-loathing and the color complex in Toni Morrison's The Bluest eye and Marita Golden's Don't play in the sun -- Sexual shame, family honor, and the mother-daughter relationship in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory -- Coming of age in a culture of shame in Naomi Wolf's Promiscuities -- Feeling fat, fearing fat in Jenefer Shute's life-size and Judith Moore's Fat girl: a true story -- The culture of appearances and the socially invisible and unattractive woman in Anita Brookner's Look at me, Doris Lessing's The summer before the dark, and Fay Weldon's The life and loves of a she-devil -- Gerontophobia and the cultural shaming of the elderly woman in May Sarton's As we are now and Margaret Laurence's The stone angel -- Writing the disfigured and disabled body-self in Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a face and Nancy Mairs's Plaintext, Carnal acts, and Waist-high in the world.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910778327503321
Bouson J. Brooks  
Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Embodied shame : uncovering female shame in contemporary women's writings / / J. Brooks Bouson
Embodied shame : uncovering female shame in contemporary women's writings / / J. Brooks Bouson
Autore Bouson J. Brooks
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (239 p.)
Disciplina 810.9/3522
Soggetto topico American literature - Women authors - History and criticism
Canadian literature - Women authors - History and criticism
English literature - Women authors - History and criticism
Women in literature
Shame in literature
Abused women in literature
Psychic trauma in literature
Body image in literature
Self-perception in literature
Body image in women
Self-perception in women
ISBN 1-4384-2739-5
1-4416-2266-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The humiliations of the female flesh in Alice Munro's lives of girls and women -- Family violence, incest, and white-trash shame in Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina -- Racial self-loathing and the color complex in Toni Morrison's The Bluest eye and Marita Golden's Don't play in the sun -- Sexual shame, family honor, and the mother-daughter relationship in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory -- Coming of age in a culture of shame in Naomi Wolf's Promiscuities -- Feeling fat, fearing fat in Jenefer Shute's life-size and Judith Moore's Fat girl: a true story -- The culture of appearances and the socially invisible and unattractive woman in Anita Brookner's Look at me, Doris Lessing's The summer before the dark, and Fay Weldon's The life and loves of a she-devil -- Gerontophobia and the cultural shaming of the elderly woman in May Sarton's As we are now and Margaret Laurence's The stone angel -- Writing the disfigured and disabled body-self in Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a face and Nancy Mairs's Plaintext, Carnal acts, and Waist-high in the world.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910827314403321
Bouson J. Brooks  
Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Jamaica Kincaid [[electronic resource] ] : writing memory, writing back to the mother / / J. Brooks Bouson
Jamaica Kincaid [[electronic resource] ] : writing memory, writing back to the mother / / J. Brooks Bouson
Autore Bouson J. Brooks
Pubbl/distr/stampa Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (254 p.)
Disciplina 813/.54
Soggetto topico Memory in literature
Mothers and daughters in literature
Women and literature - Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua - History - 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 0-7914-8292-8
1-4237-4774-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto When you think of me, think of my life -- I had embarked on something called self-invention : artistic beginnings in "Antigua crossings" and At the bottom of the river -- The way I became a writer was that my mother wrote my life for me and told it to me : living in the shadow of the mother in Annie John -- As I looked at this sentence a great wave of shame came over me and I wept and wept : the art of memory, anger, and despair in Lucy -- Imagine the bitterness and the shame in me as I tell you this : the political is personal in A small place and "On seeing England for the first time" -- I would bear children but I would never be a mother to them : writing back to the contemptuous mother in The autobiography of my mother -- I shall never forget him because his life is the one I did not have : remembering her brother's failed life in My brother -- Like him and his own father before him, I have a line drawn through me : imagining the life of the absent father in Mr. Potter.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910451844703321
Bouson J. Brooks  
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Jamaica Kincaid [[electronic resource] ] : writing memory, writing back to the mother / / J. Brooks Bouson
Jamaica Kincaid [[electronic resource] ] : writing memory, writing back to the mother / / J. Brooks Bouson
Autore Bouson J. Brooks
Pubbl/distr/stampa Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (254 p.)
Disciplina 813/.54
Soggetto topico Memory in literature
Mothers and daughters in literature
Women and literature - Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua - History - 20th century
ISBN 0-7914-8292-8
1-4237-4774-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto When you think of me, think of my life -- I had embarked on something called self-invention : artistic beginnings in "Antigua crossings" and At the bottom of the river -- The way I became a writer was that my mother wrote my life for me and told it to me : living in the shadow of the mother in Annie John -- As I looked at this sentence a great wave of shame came over me and I wept and wept : the art of memory, anger, and despair in Lucy -- Imagine the bitterness and the shame in me as I tell you this : the political is personal in A small place and "On seeing England for the first time" -- I would bear children but I would never be a mother to them : writing back to the contemptuous mother in The autobiography of my mother -- I shall never forget him because his life is the one I did not have : remembering her brother's failed life in My brother -- Like him and his own father before him, I have a line drawn through me : imagining the life of the absent father in Mr. Potter.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910777547803321
Bouson J. Brooks  
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Jamaica Kincaid [[electronic resource] ] : writing memory, writing back to the mother / / J. Brooks Bouson
Jamaica Kincaid [[electronic resource] ] : writing memory, writing back to the mother / / J. Brooks Bouson
Autore Bouson J. Brooks
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (254 p.)
Disciplina 813/.54
Soggetto topico Memory in literature
Mothers and daughters in literature
Women and literature - Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua - History - 20th century
ISBN 0-7914-8292-8
1-4237-4774-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto When you think of me, think of my life -- I had embarked on something called self-invention : artistic beginnings in "Antigua crossings" and At the bottom of the river -- The way I became a writer was that my mother wrote my life for me and told it to me : living in the shadow of the mother in Annie John -- As I looked at this sentence a great wave of shame came over me and I wept and wept : the art of memory, anger, and despair in Lucy -- Imagine the bitterness and the shame in me as I tell you this : the political is personal in A small place and "On seeing England for the first time" -- I would bear children but I would never be a mother to them : writing back to the contemptuous mother in The autobiography of my mother -- I shall never forget him because his life is the one I did not have : remembering her brother's failed life in My brother -- Like him and his own father before him, I have a line drawn through me : imagining the life of the absent father in Mr. Potter.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910812955403321
Bouson J. Brooks  
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Shame and the Aging Woman : Confronting and Resisting Ageism in Contemporary Women's Writings / / by J. Brooks Bouson
Shame and the Aging Woman : Confronting and Resisting Ageism in Contemporary Women's Writings / / by J. Brooks Bouson
Autore Bouson J. Brooks
Edizione [1st ed. 2016.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (220 p.)
Disciplina 809
Collana Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
Soggetto topico Literature, Modern - 20th century
Literature, Modern - 21st century
Literature - Philosophy
Sex
Contemporary Literature
Twentieth-Century Literature
Literary Theory
Gender Studies
ISBN 3-319-31711-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preface -- Chapter 1: Aging Women and the Age Mystique: Age Anxiety and Body Shame in the Contemporary Culture of Appearances -- Chapter 2: The Mask of Aging and the Social Devaluation and Sexual Humiliation of the Aging and Old Woman -- Chapter 3: Facing the Stranger in the Mirror in Illness, Disability,and Physical Decline -- Chapter 4: Confronting and Resisting an Unlivable Age Culture. .
Record Nr. UNINA-9910255236503321
Bouson J. Brooks  
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui