Shamewreck (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Peggy Shinner | knygos.lt

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In Shamewreck, Peggy Shinner interrogates the entanglement of shame and language, casting shame as a moral force, a conscience-beast, an umpire, the fellow who awaits when you come home. These essays grapple with the nuclear bombing of Bikini Atoll and the emergence, four days later, of the bikini in Paris; the link between property and personhood and what it means to die without possessions; the mutability of language and how shamefaced once meant "modest and bashful," before morphing into the opposite, "abashed and ashamed"; how talkative women were thought to be sloppy women, like Eve (loose of mouth and morals ); how occupation once meant "heterosexual intercourse" and now means "military invasion." Parsing the dark undercurrents of popular culture alongside her own experiences as a queer woman, Shinner exhorts us to abandon willful unseeing and consider the legacies of language. Take a look, she urges, you can buy a new car in twenty-first-century America and for your money get two masters and a slave key. Shamewreck complicates our notions of shame and shamelessness and rescues them from the refuse pile, reclaiming shame as a potent moral adjudicator.