Shame in Contemporary You-Narration: Time, Gender and Race

In fiction, you—narratives written in the last decade across the world parody the form of second—person address found in advertising, self—help and ‘how—to’ books while anticipating shame and culpability. To establish the significance of affect, this book returns to second—person narrative theory’s neglected origins in the theory of autobiography. This book examines the use of you across media: novels and memoirs by Paul Auster, Carmen Maria Machado, Alejandro Zambra, Vendela Vida, Christin...