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Daughters of the House of Shame

Sinead McDermott ERICA L. JOHNSON ; PATRICIA MORAN

The Female Face of Shame, 2013, p.119

Indiana University Press

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Title:
Daughters of the House of Shame
Author: Sinead McDermott
ERICA L. JOHNSON ; PATRICIA MORAN
Subjects: Anthropology ; Applied anthropology ; Applied arts ; Architectural elements ; Architecture ; Arts ; Behavioral sciences ; Burial practices ; Cellars ; Cemeteries ; Cognitive psychology ; Communications ; Cultural anthropology ; Cultural customs ; Emotion ; Emotional states ; Esotericism ; Femininity ; Fiction ; Gender identity ; Gender studies ; Graves ; Human populations ; Interior spaces ; Literary genres ; Literature ; Mothers ; Mysticism ; Narratives ; Novels ; Persons ; Plastic arts ; Population studies ; Practical theology ; Psychology ; Religion ; Religious experience philosophy ; Rooms ; Sculpture ; Sculpture in the round ; Shame ; Social sciences ; Spiritual visions ; Statues ; Theology ; Visual arts ; Women
Is Part Of: The Female Face of Shame, 2013, p.119
Description: In this chapter I discuss a British novel first published in 1992, Michèle Roberts’sDaughters of the House,in the light of recent feminist theorizations of shame. I argue that shame acts as a central concept in the novel, delineating the boundaries of the proper feminine body and of the nation-state. Shame is especially resonant in Roberts’s exploration of the theme of hidden, traumatic memory and its relationship to a female body which is represented as transgressing sexual and national borders and boundaries. In exploring the aftereffects of shame for a second generation, Roberts’s novel also suggests intriguing connections between
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Language: English

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Sinead McDermott ERICA L. JOHNSON ; PATRICIA MORAN

Indiana University Press

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