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Queer Attachments - The Cultural Politics of Shame (Paperback, New Ed)
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Queer Attachments - The Cultural Politics of Shame (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Queer Interventions
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Why is shame so central to our identity and to our culture? What is
its role in stigmatizing subcultures such as the Irish, the queer
or the underclass? Can shame be understood as a productive force?
In this lucid and passionately argued book, Sally R. Munt explores
the vicissitudes of shame across a range of texts, cultural
milieux, historical locations and geographical spaces - from
eighteenth-century Irish politics to Philip Pullman's His Dark
Materials trilogy, from contemporary US academia to the aesthetics
of Tracey Emin. She finds that the dynamics of shame are consistent
across cultures and historical periods, and that patterns of shame
are disturbingly long-lived. But she also reveals shame as an
affective emotion, engendering attachments between bodies and
between subjects - queer attachments. Above all, she celebrates the
extraordinary human ability to turn shame into joy: the party after
the fall. Queer Attachments is an interdisciplinary synthesis of
cultural politics, emotions theory and narrative that challenges us
to think about the queerly creative proclivities of shame.
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