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On any given day in America's news cycle, stories and images of
disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral
indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame
and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and
intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in
shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this
emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here
consider the role of shame as cultural practice and examine ways
that public shaming practices enforce conformity and group
coherence. Addressing abortion, mental illness, suicide,
immigration, and body image among other issues, this volume calls
attention to the ways shaming practices create and police social
boundaries; how shaming speech is endorsed, judged, or challenged
by various groups; and the distinct ways that shame is encoded and
embodied in a nation that prides itself on individualism,
diversity, and exceptionalism. Examining shame through a prism of
race, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender, these provocative essays
offer a broader understanding of how America's discourse of shame
helps to define its people as citizens, spectators, consumers, and
moral actors.
On any given day in America's news cycle, stories and images of
disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral
indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame
and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and
intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in
shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this
emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here
consider the role of shame as cultural practice and examine ways
that public shaming practices enforce conformity and group
coherence. Addressing abortion, mental illness, suicide,
immigration, and body image among other issues, this volume calls
attention to the ways shaming practices create and police social
boundaries; how shaming speech is endorsed, judged, or challenged
by various groups; and the distinct ways that shame is encoded and
embodied in a nation that prides itself on individualism,
diversity, and exceptionalism. Examining shame through a prism of
race, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender, these provocative essays
offer a broader understanding of how America's discourse of shame
helps to define its people as citizens, spectators, consumers, and
moral actors.
From the exuberant excesses of Carmen Miranda in the "tutti frutti
hat" to the curvaceous posterior of Jennifer Lopez, the Latina body
has long been a signifier of Latina/o identity in U.S. popular
culture. But how does this stereotype of the exotic, erotic Latina
"bombshell" relate, if at all, to real Latina women who represent a
wide spectrum of ethnicities, national origins, cultures, and
physical appearances? How are ideas about "Latinidad" imagined,
challenged, and inscribed on Latina bodies? What racial, class, and
other markers of identity do representations of the Latina body
signal or reject? In this broadly interdisciplinary book, experts
from the fields of Latina/o studies, media studies, communication,
comparative literature, women's studies, and sociology come
together to offer the first wide-ranging look at the construction
and representation of Latina identity in U.S. popular culture. The
authors consider such popular figures as actresses Lupe Vélez,
Salma Hayek, and Jennifer Lopez; singers Shakira and Celia Cruz;
and even the Hispanic Barbie doll in her many guises. They
investigate the media discourses surrounding controversial Latinas
such as Lorena Bobbitt and Marisleysis González. And they discuss
Latina representations in Lupe Solano's series of mystery books and
in the popular TV shows El Show de Cristina and Laura en América.
This extensive treatment of Latina representation in popular
culture not only sheds new light on how meaning is produced through
images of the Latina body, but also on how these representations of
Latinas are received, revised, and challenged.
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