Shame in Contemporary You-Narration : Time, Gender and Race

Edinburgh University Press

Shame in Contemporary You-NarrationTime, Gender and Race\nAuthor(s): Denise Wong\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399546959, 978-1399546959\nSynopsis\nIn fiction, you-narratives written in the last decade across the world parody the form of second-person address found in advertising, self-help and how-to books while anticipating shame and culpability. To establish the significance of affect, this book returns to second-person narrative theorys neglected origins in the theory of autobiography. This book examines the use of you across media: novels and memoirs by Paul Auster, Carmen Maria Machado, Alejandro Zambra, Vendela Vida, Christine Angot, Clarice Lispector, Charles Yu, and Caleb Azumah Nelson; poems by Claudia Rankine and Phoebe Waller-Bridges play and television series Fleabag [tel]. These texts are brought into dialogue with narratology, philosophy, literary criticism and critical race t.