|
|
|
Item Details
Title:
|
SHAME, MASCULINITY AND DESIRE OF BELONGING
READING CONTEMPORARY MALE WRITERS |
By: |
Aneta Stepien |
Format: |
Hardback |
List price:
|
£86.65 |
Our price: |
£77.99 |
Discount: |
|
You save:
|
£8.66 |
|
|
|
|
ISBN 10: |
3034322534 |
ISBN 13: |
9783034322539 |
Availability: |
This item will be printed on demand and will usually be dispatched within 10 days.
Delivery
rates
|
Stock: |
Currently 0 available |
Publisher: |
PETER LANG AG, INTERNATIONALER VERLAG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN |
Pub. date: |
26 December, 2016 |
Pages: |
294 |
Description: |
What does it mean to be a `real man'? This study explores the depiction of male shame in the novels of Hanif Kureishi, Philip Roth and Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki. Drawing on postcolonial, gender and feminist studies of shame, the authors exposes the damaging nature of the denial of male emotions and the effect it has on society. |
Synopsis: |
This study considers male shame in contemporary writing by men, examining why shame is often considered a female emotion and therefore denied in men. The author's comparative approach to the private experience of shame in novels by Hanif Kureishi, Philip Roth and Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki demonstrates the extent to which shame conditions male behaviour, protecting the powerful hierarchies existing between different kinds of masculinities. Using different conceptual analyses, the author exposes the damaging nature of the culturally sanctioned demand that men be "real men", which is often simply a call for violence. The book also examines shame more broadly as a means of social control, whether of women in patriarchal cultures or of people of different ethnic, sexual and class identities. Treating shame as both an individual and a social emotion, the author draws on perspectives from scholarship on shame in postcolonial, gender and feminist studies. |
Publication: |
Switzerland |
Imprint: |
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB)
Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
|
|
All the Things We Carry PB
What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
|
|
|
|