The Female Face of Shame

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part 1. Bodies of Shame 1 The Other Woman: Xenophobia and Shame · Jocelyn Eighan 23 2 Rape, Trauma, and Shame in Samira Bellil’s Dans l’enfer des tournantes · Nicole Fayard 34 3 A Bloody Shame: Angela Carter’s Shameless Postmodern Fairy Tales · Suzette A. Henke 48 4 “Ecrire pour ne plus avoir honte”: Christine Angot’s and Annie Ernaux’s Shameless Bodies · Natalie Edwards 61 5 Interactions of Disability Pride and Shame · Eliza Chandler 74 Part 2. Families of Shame 6 Colonial Shame in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng · Erica L. Johnson 89 7 Ancestors and Aliens: Queer Transformations and Affective Estrangement in Octavia Butler’s Fiction · Frann Michel 100 8 Daughters of the House of Shame · Sinead McDermott 119 9 “Bound and Gagged with Thread”: Shame, Female Development, and the Künstlerroman Tradition in Cora Sandel’s The Alberta Trilogy · Patricia Moran 132 10 Girl World and Bullying: Intersubjective Shame in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye · Laura Martocci 149 11 Affliction in Jean Rhys and Simone Weil · Tamar Heller 166 Part 3. Nations of Shame 12 Coping with National Shames through Chinese Women’s Bodies: Glorified or Mortified? · Peiling Zhao 179 13 Shamed Bodies: Partition Violence and Women · Namrata Mitra 197 14 Interrogating the Place of Lajja (Shame) in Contemporary Mauritius · Karen Lindo 212 15 Shame and Belonging in Postcolonial Algeria · Anna Rocca 229 Bibliography 243 List of Contributors 261 Index 265 ...