Reading Rape : : The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990 /

Reading Rape : : The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990 / / Sabine Sielke.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
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Sielke, Sabine,
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

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