Chapter 3. ‘The Dumb Cunt’s Tale’: Desire, Shame and Self-Narration in Contemporary Autofiction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction: Beginning with Stigma 1
5. Chapter 1. Forgetting and Remembering Lesbian Pulp: Shame, Recuperation and Queer History 45
6. Chapter 2. Cleaving to the Scene of Shame: Stigmatised Childhoods in The End of Alice and Two Girls, Fat and Thin 97
7. Chapter 3. ‘The Dumb Cunt’s Tale’: Desire, Shame and Self-Narration in Contemporary Autofiction 149
8. Chapter 4. The Shame of Being a Man: Humiliation and/as Heroism 199
9. Conclusion: The Shame is (Not) Over 245
10. Bibliography 255
11. Index 279