Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation

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Sorcha Gunne, Zoë Brigley
Routledge, 2010 - 245 Seiten

The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the contributors aim to incorporate arguments about trauma and resistance in order to establish new dimensions of healing. This book makes a vital contribution to the fields of literary studies and feminism, since while other volumes have focused on retroactive portrayals of rape in literature, to date none has focused entirely on the subversive work that is being done to retheorize sexual violence.

Split into four sections, the volume considers sexual violence from a number of different angles. 'Subverting the Story' considers how the characters of the victim and rapist might be subverted in narratives of sexual violence. In 'Metaphors for Resistance,' the essays explore how writers approach the subject of rape obliquely using metaphors to represent their suffering and pain. The controversy of not speaking about sexual violence is the focus of 'The Protest of Silence,' while 'The Question of the Visual' considers the problems of making sexual violence visible in the poetic image, in film and on stage. These four sections cover an impressive range of world writing which includes curriculum staples like Toni Morrison, Sarah Kane, Sandra Cisneros, Yvonne Vera, and Sharon Olds.

 

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Feminism without Borders The Potentials and Pitfalls of Retheorizing Rape
1
2 Rape by Proxy in Contemporary Caribbean Womens Fiction
23
Toni Morrisons Representations of Rape
38
Gender Violence in Sandra Cisneross The House on Mango Street
54
Sexual Violence and Representational Crisis in Nawal El Saadawis Woman at Point Zero
71
The Politics of Resistance in Yvonne Veras Novels
85
Sexual Violence Mental Health and Resisting Abjection in Camilla Gibbs Mouthing the Words and Elizabeth Ruths Ten Good Seconds of Silence
96
Sexual Violence and the Holocaust
117
10 Double Violation? Not Talking about Sexual Violence in Contemporary South Asia
146
Writing Rape in Achmat Dangors Bitter Fruit and Kagiso Lesego Molopes Dancing in the Dust
164
Problems of Representing Sexual Violence on Stage
183
Rape Recovery and Poetry in Pascale Petits The Wounded Deer Fourteen Poems after Frida Kahlo
200
14 Rape Power Realism and the Fantastic on Television
217
List of Editors and Contributors
233
Index
239
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Gender Violence Displacement and the Refugee Camp in Yasmin Ladhas DocumentaryFiction
130

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