ABSTRACT
Shame and Modern Writing seeks to uncover the presence of shame in and across a vast array of modern writing modalities. This interdisciplinary volume includes essays from distinguished and emergent scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and shorter practice-based reflections from poets and clinical writers. It serves as a timely reflection of shame as presented in modern writing, giving added attention to engagements on race, gender, and the question of new media representation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 5|18 pages
Writing to Spare One’s Blushes
Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions and the Automation of Confidence
chapter 8|23 pages
The Body that Race Built
Shame, Trauma and Lack in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and God Help the Child