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  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: archive of shame
    sub title: gender, embodiment, and citizenship in contemporary American culture
  name:
    name part: Harris, Rebecca.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Robinson, Sally
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: In this dissertation, "An Archive of Shame: Gender, Embodiment, and Citizenship in Contemporary American Culture," I use the affect of shame in its multiple forms and manifestations as a category of analysis in order to examine complex relationships between gender, sexuality, the body, and citizenship. Through chapters on incest, gender normalization, and disease, I build an "archive" of the feeling of shame that consists of literary texts such as Sapphire's Push: A Novel, Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex, Tony Kushner's Angels in America, and Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, as well as materials from popular culture, films such as Philadelphia, court cases, and other ephemera such as pamphlets and news coverage. In order to construct this archive, I bring together seemingly disparate materials and create readings of American culture that illustrate how the category of citizen is produced by the shaming of women, the gender non-conforming, and the diseased. Using feminist theoretical models, I critique previous discussions of citizenship, the state, and the body in queer theory, which have reified the privilege of whiteness and maleness by evacuating the bodies of women, the gender non-conforming, and the diseased of their radical potential to undermine oppressive state institutions. The texts I analyze in this project interrogate normalized processes of documentation and archiving, and through their subject matter as well as their form, these texts participate in the archival process-theorizing and exploring alternative methods of documentation, collecting, and historicizing and so illustrate how the discourses produced by mainstream history are built upon the maintenance of social hierarchies. By bringing these texts together, I am developing a theory of the archive and its processes, its bodies, and its feelings. Archiving as a practice collects and documents, and in that collection, develops a coherent narrative about a particular event or history. Critical theory is al…
  note: by Rebecca Harris.
  note: "Major Subject: English"
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10861
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major English
  subject:
    topic: Embodiment
  subject:
    topic: Affect
  subject:
    topic: Contemporary American Culture
  subject:
    topic: Queer Studies
  subject:
    topic: Contemporary American Literature
  subject:
    topic: Gender Studies
  subject:
    topic: Citizenship
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10861
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 121011
    record change date: 20150922123453.0
    record identifier: in00002775895