Reading rape :: the rhetoric of sexual violence in American literature and culture, 1790-1990 /

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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1. Verfasser: Sielke, Sabine, 1959-
Format: Regierungsdokument Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002.
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Zusammenfassung: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 antebellum seduction narratives and "realist" representations of rape in nineteenth-century novels to Deliverance, American Psycho, and contemporary feminist accounts--Sabine Sielke traces the evolution of a specifically American rhetoric of rape. She considers the kinds of cultural work that this rhetoric
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 241 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-232) and index.
ISBN:9781400824946
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1400814685
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