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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aneta Stępień , Laurel PlappPublisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Edition: New edition Weight: 0.530kg ISBN: 9783034322539ISBN 10: 3034322534 Pages: 294 Publication Date: 26 December 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents: 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.ReviewsAuthor InformationAneta 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |