ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explore the idea of traumatic shame and its multiple manifestations and discuss possible openings for individual and social transformation that create spaces for shame to operate pedagogically. The author argue that traumatic shame raises provocative issues about the transformative possibilities that can be made available in situations in which shame forces people to witness the limits, or even dissolution, of human subjectivity. The important transformation of (shameful) self and the recognition of the Other's suffering constitute important points for further analysis of the ethics and politics of shame and suffering in this novel. In this chapter, the author have argued that pedagogies of shame-that is, pedagogical practices of reading, engaging, and learning from shame-expose the complexities of multiple shames and the opportunities to experience new relationalities with others. Needless to say, pedagogies of shame must also consider the limits, potential failures, and even impossibilities of being taught from shame in some circumstances.
