Three Essays on Trauma and Shame
Feminist Perspectives on Visual Poetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12499222 |
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| Authors | G Pollock (0000-0002-6752-2554, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 7-31 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Journal of Women s Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1225-9276 • E-ISSN: 2377-004X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/12259276.2006.11666015 |
| OpenAlex | W2542605325 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Can we die from shame? In what way is shame a feminist issue? How have contemporary artists explored the theme? Prompted by a news item that reported the death of a leading Korean actress, which was attributed to the shame of a role she had played in a recent movie, The Scarlet Letter, this article explores shame initially through a re-reading of Sigmund Freud's challenging theory of exuality (1905) in which he plots out the ways in which shame and disgrace come into being and specifically inflect the social management of women's adult sexuality. It then offers three case studies of ways in which contemporary artists from South Africa, Zanzibar/UK and Israel/France have explored aspects of historically created shame (apartheid and truth/reconciliation, enslavement, genocide and the Holocaust) through a variety of forms of art practice, not to submit their subjects to re-shaming, but to challenge the world to be ashamed of what has been done to diminish the humanity of those who are othered for gender, ethnicity, religion
Aesthetics · Art · Genocide · Human sexuality · Humanity · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Shame · Sociology · Theme (computing · African history and culture studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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