Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Bodies of Shame
1. The Other Woman: Xenophobia and Shame \\ Jocelyn Eighan
2. Rape, Trauma, and Shame in Samira Bellil's Dans l'enfer des tournantes \\ Nicole Fayard
3. A Bloody Shame: Angela Carter's Shameless Postmodern Fairy Tales \\ Suzette A. Henke
4. Ecrire pour ne plus avoir honte: Christine Angot's and Annie Ernaux's Shameless Bodies \\ Natalie Edwards
5. Interactions of Disability Pride and Shame \\ Eliza Chandler
Part 2. Families of Shame
6. Colonial Shame in Michelle Cliff's Abeng \\ Erica L. Johnson
7. Ancestors and Aliens: Queer Transformations and Affective Estrangement in Octavia Butler's Fiction \\ Frann Michel
8. Daughters of the House of Shame \\ Sinead McDermott
9. Bound and Gagged with Thread: Shame, Female Development, and the Kunstlerroman Tradition in Cora Sandel's The Alberta Trilogy \\ Patricia Moran
10. Girl World and Bullying: Intersubjective Shame in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye \\ Laura Martocci
11. Affliction in Jean Rhys and Simone Weil \\ Tamar Heller
Part 3. Nations of Shame
12. Coping with National Shames through Chinese Women's Bodies: Glorified or Mortified? \\ Peiling Zhao
13. Shamed Bodies: Partition Violence and Women \\ Namrata Mitra
14. Interrogating the Place of Lajja (Shame) in Contemporary Mauritius \\ Karen Lindo
15. Shame and Belonging in Postcolonial Algeria \\ Anna Rocca
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index