Reading Rape : : The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990 / / Sabine Sielke.
Reading Rape examines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latter twentieth century, rape achieved such significance as a trope of power relations. Through attentive readings of a wide range of literary and cultural representations of sexual assault--from antebel...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 3 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: What We Talk about When We Talk about Rape
- CHAPTER ONE. Seduced and Enslaved: Sexual Violence in Antebellum American Literature and Contemporary Feminist Discourse
- CHAPTER TWO. The Rise of the (Black) Rapist and the Reconstruction of Difference; or, "Realist" Rape
- CHAPTER THREE. Rape and the Artifice of Representation: Four Modernist Modes
- CHAPTER FOUR. Voicing Sexual Violence, Repoliticizing Rape: Post-Modernist Narratives of Sexuality and Power
- AFTERWORD. Challenging Readings of Rape
- Notes
- Works Cited and Consulted
- Index