Scripting shame in African literature / Stephen L. Bishop.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: Negotiating shame -- Part I. The many faces of shame. Introduction ; ch. 1. Differentiating shame(s) ; ch. 2. Shame in Africa ; ch. 3. Fanon’s shame ; ch. 4. Contemporary views of traditional shame -- Part II. Penned in: Shame in the African novel. Introduction ; ch. 5. Shaming colonial Africa ; ch. 6. More of the shame in postcolonial Africa ; ch. 7. Women’s virtue: engendering shame ; ch. 8 Excess(ive) shame and shamelessness ; ch. 9. Naming and shaming violence and corruption ; ch. 10. The shame of which we shall never now speak -- Shame’s epilogue.

This book locates the frequent expressions of shame in sub-Saharan African literature and shows how its diverse literary representations underscore shame's function as a fulcrum in the mutual constitution of subject and community on the continent employing both African and Western conceptions of the emotion.

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