Shame, Masculinity and Desire of Belonging: Reading Contemporary Male Writers

Author:   Aneta Stępień ,  Laurel Plapp
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
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9783034322539


Pages:   294
Publication Date:   26 December 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Shame, Masculinity and Desire of Belonging: Reading Contemporary Male Writers


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This study considers male shame in contemporary writing by men, examining why shame is often considered a female emotion and therefore denied in men. The author’s comparative approach to the private experience of shame in novels by Hanif Kureishi, Philip Roth and Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki demonstrates the extent to which shame conditions male behaviour, protecting the powerful hierarchies existing between different kinds of masculinities. Using different conceptual analyses, the author exposes the damaging nature of the culturally sanctioned demand that men be «real men», which is often simply a call for violence. The book also examines shame more broadly as a means of social control, whether of women in patriarchal cultures or of people of different ethnic, sexual and class identities. Treating shame as both an individual and a social emotion, the author draws on perspectives from scholarship on shame in postcolonial, gender and feminist studies.

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Author:   Aneta Stępień ,  Laurel Plapp
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9783034322539


ISBN 10:   3034322534
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   26 December 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Contents: Introduction: Why Male Shame? – Social and Historical Conditions of Shame – Exposing and Uncovering Shame in Hanif Kureishi’s Intimacy – The Shame of Being a Man in Philip Roth’s Everyman and Portnoy’s Complaint – Shame and Degradation in Raz. Dwa. Trzy – Conclusion and Implications for Practice.

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Aneta Stępień holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Surrey. She coordinates Polish Studies in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at Trinity College Dublin, where she teaches Polish culture and literature, East Central European Studes and gender. She is also working on a research project about the Yiddish modernist writer Isaac Bashevis Singer.

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