Narrating Shame and Shaming
Narrating Shame and Shaming
Femininity, Disability, and Mental Distress in Autobiographical Storytelling
What if shame is not something disabled women must overcome to tell their stories, but a narrative affect that shapes both the stories they tell and how we receive them? Katrin Röder examines verbal and graphic narratives, vlogs, and performances by female-identified British and Indian Anglophone writers with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and mental distress from 1981 to 2023. Bringing together popular culture and experimental life writing by award-winning authors, the study shows how many of these works resist reduction to marketable spectacles of difference. Instead, they confront and deconstruct shame and stigma surrounding femininity, disability, illness, and cultural difference.
Katrin Röder (Prof. Dr.) holds the chair of English literature at Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany. She worked as a research assistant at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she served as principal investigator of a research project on shame as a narrative affect in contemporary life writing by female-identified British and Indian Anglophone authors with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and mental distress that was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
- ISBN-13
- 9783837676600
- Publisher
- transcript
- Imprint
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- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 270
- Dimensions
- 225 x 148 mm
- Language
- English