Feminism Literature And Rape Narratives

Author : Sorcha Gunne,Zoe Brigley Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136615849

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Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives by Sorcha Gunne,Zoe Brigley Thompson Pdf

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.

Author : Tanya Serisier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319986692

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Speaking Out by Tanya Serisier Pdf

This is the first critical study of feminist practices of ‘speaking out’ in response to rape. This book argues that feminist anti-rape politics are characterised by a belief in the transformative potential of women’s personal narratives of sexual violence. The political mobilisation of these narratives has been an incredibly successful strategy, but one with unresolved ethical questions and political limitations. The book explores both the successes and the unresolved questions through feminist archival materials, published narratives of sexual violence, and mass media and internet sources. It argues that that a rethinking of the role and place of women’s stories and the politics of speaking out is vital for a rethinking of feminist politics around sexual violence and key to fresh approaches to combating this violence.

Author : Amy Lane Chasteen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Rape
ISBN : UOM:39015041254221

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Rape Narratives in the U.S. by Amy Lane Chasteen Pdf

Author : Lynn A. Higgins
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231514719

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Rape and Representation by Lynn A. Higgins Pdf

Rape does not have to happen. The fact that it does--and in the United States a rape is reported every six minutes--indicates that we live in a rape-prone culture where rape or the threat of rape functions as a tool for enforcing sexual difference and hierarchy. Rape and Representation explores how cultural forms construct and reenforce social attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate sexual violence. The essays proceed from the observation that literature not only reflects but also contributes to what a society believes about itself. Fourteen essays by authors in the fields of English, American and African-American, German, African, Brazilian, Classical, and French literatures and film present a wide range of texts from different historical periods and cultures. Contributors demythologize patriarchal representation in literature and art in order to show how it makes rape seem natural and inevitable. Contributors include: the editors, John J. Winkler, Patricia Klindiest Joplin, Susan Winnett, Ellen Rooney, Coppélia Kahn, Eileen Julien, Marta Peixoto, Kathryn Gravdal, Carla Freccero, Nellie V. McKay, Nancy A. Jones, and Froma I. Zeitlin. Their work raises pressing--and often difficult--questions for feminist criticism.

Author : Ulrika Andersson,Monika Edgren,Lena Karlsson,Gabriella Nilsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Crime
ISBN : 3030138542

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Rape Narratives in Motion by Ulrika Andersson,Monika Edgren,Lena Karlsson,Gabriella Nilsson Pdf

This book critically examines the last few decades of discussion around sex and violence in the media, on social media, in the courtroom and through legislation. The discursive struggles over what constitutes sexual violence, victims and offenders is normally determined through narratives: a selective ordering of events and participants. Centrally, the book investigates the social processes involved in the telling of stories of rape and its political implications. From a multidisciplinary feminist perspective, this volume explores what narratives about sexual violence are deemed legitimate at this historical juncture. This volume brings together feminist scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines including law, legal studies, history, gender studies, ethnology, media, criminology and social work from across the globe. Through situated empirical work, these scholars seek to understand currents movements between the criminal justice system and the cultural imagination.

Author : Margaret R. Higonnet
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501723025

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Borderwork by Margaret R. Higonnet Pdf

The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline. The seventeen essays collected here, most published for the first time, together call for the contextualization of the study of comparative literature within the areas of discourse, culture, ideology, race, and gender. Contributors: Bella Brodzki, VèVè A. Clark, Chris Cullens, Greta Gaard, Sabine Gölz, Sarah Webster Goodwin, Margaret R. Higonnet, Marianne Hirsch, Susan Sniader Lanser, Françoise Lionnet, Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Lore Metzger, Nancy K. Miller, Obioma Nnaemakea, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Anca Vlasopolos.

Author : Alexa Kay Larson-Thorisch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89053721486

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Was it Rape? Sexual Violence and the Construction of Gender in Legal-medical and Literary Discourse (1770-1810) by Alexa Kay Larson-Thorisch Pdf

Author : Susan Brownmiller
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781480441958

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Against Our Will by Susan Brownmiller Pdf

DIVDIVSusan Brownmiller’s groundbreaking bestseller uncovers the culture of violence against women with a devastating exploration of the history of rape—now with a new preface by the author exposing the undercurrents of rape still present today/divDIV Rape, as author Susan Brownmiller proves in her startling and important book, is not about sex but about power, fear, and subjugation. For thousands of years, it has been viewed as an acceptable “spoil of war,” used as a weapon by invading armies to crush the will of the conquered. The act of rape against women has long been cloaked in lies and false justifications./divDIV It is ignored, tolerated, even encouraged by governments and military leaders, misunderstood by police and security organizations, freely employed by domineering husbands and lovers, downplayed by medical and legal professionals more inclined to “blame the victim,” and, perhaps most shockingly, accepted in supposedly civilized societies worldwide, including the United States./divDIV Against Our Will is a classic work that has been widely credited with changing prevailing attitudes about violence against women by awakening the public to the true and continuing tragedy of rape around the globe and throughout the ages./divDIV Selected by the New York Times Book Review as an Outstanding Book of the Year and included among the New York Public Library’s Books of the Century, Against Our Will remains an essential work of sociological and historical importance./divDIV/div/div

Author : Margo Lanagan
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375891496

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Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan Pdf

Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for her earthly life. Her two daughters grow up in this soft place, protected from the violence that once harmed their mother. But the real world cannot be denied forever—magicked men and wild bears break down the borders of Liga’s refuge. Now, having known Heaven, how will these three women survive in a world where beauty and brutality lie side by side?

Author : S. Gunne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137442680

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Space, Place, and Gendered Violence in South African Writing by S. Gunne Pdf

Exploring the relationship between space, place, and gendered violence as depicted in a range of South African writing, Gunne examines the social and political conditions of exceptionality during and after apartheid. Writers covered include: Hilda Bernstein, J.M. Coetzee, Achmat Dangor, Ruth First, Nadine Gordimer, and Antjie Krog.

Author : Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004488854

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Women's Movement by Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson Pdf

Women’s Movement critically explores the transgressive potential of feminist escape narratives and argues that they are, almost by definition, radically different from paradigmatic male escape narratives. While definitions of escape are necessarily broad, they have too often excluded the ambiguous escape – the escape most closely associated with the female. Indeed, feminist escape narratives often resist a happy ending, and Women’s Movement argues that these narrative closures reflect the changing face of feminism, as it sheds its old certainties, is faced with a monumental “backlash” and is refigured as the potentially less threatening “postfeminism”. Resisting the automatic association of “escape” with “escapist,” Women’s Movement analyzes male adventure and quest narratives, including Moby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Blood Meridian, and Deliverance, before turning to a range of feminist texts. While being the first book to give critical attention to some postfeminist novels, Women’s Movement more often acts as a channel for offering different ways of approaching familiar feminist texts, including, among others, Marian Engel’s Bear, Atwood’s Surfacing and The Handmaid’s Tale, Joan Barfoot’s Gaining Ground and Dancing in the Dark, Anne Tyler’s Earthly Possessions and Ladder of Years, Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying and Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners.

Author : Belén Martín-Lucas,Andrea Ruthven
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319621333

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Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures by Belén Martín-Lucas,Andrea Ruthven Pdf

This book is about how the marketing of transnational cultural commodities capitalizes on difference and its appeal for cosmopolitan consumers in our postmodern globalized world. At what price? What ethical and political conundrums does the artist/writer/reader confront when going global? This volume analyzes why difference - whether gender, sexual, racial, ethnic, or linguistic - has become such a prominent element in the contemporary cultural field, and the effects of this prevalence on the production, circulation and reception of cultural commodities in the context of globalization. At the intersection of globalization, diaspora, postcolonial and feminist studies in world literature, these essays engage critically with a wide variety of representative narratives taken from diverse cultural fields, including humanitarian fiction, multilingual poetry, painting, text-image art, performance art, film, documentary, and docu-poetry. The chapters included offer counter-readings that disrupt hegemonic representations of cultural identity within the contemporary, neoliberal and globalized landscape.

Author : Cameron Awkward-Rich
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478023302

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The Terrible We by Cameron Awkward-Rich Pdf

In The Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that persist in both transphobic discourse and trans cultural production. Observing that trans studies was founded on a split from and disavowal of madness, illness, and disability, Awkward-Rich argues for and models a trans criticism that works against this disavowal. By tracing the coproduction of the categories of disabled and transgender in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century and analyzing transmasculine literature and theory by Eli Clare, Elliott DeLine, Dylan Scholinski, and others, Awkward-Rich suggests that thinking with maladjustment might provide new perspectives on the impasses arising from the conflicted relationships among trans, feminist, and queer. In so doing, he demonstrates that rather than only impeding or confining trans life, thought, and creativity, forms of maladjustment have also been and will continue to be central to their development. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient

Author : B. Åström,K. Gregersdotter,T. Horeck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781137291639

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Rape in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Beyond by B. Åström,K. Gregersdotter,T. Horeck Pdf

Focusing on the sexualized violence of Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy – including the novels, Swedish film adaptations, and Hollywood blockbusters – this collection of essays puts Larsson's work into dialogue with Scandinavian and Anglophone crime novels by writers including Jo Nesbø, Håkan Nesser, Mo Hayder and Val McDermid.

Author : V. Vitanza
Publisher : Springer
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230337718

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Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing by V. Vitanza Pdf

This book focuses on rape narratives as grounding for western thinking about community - from the polis to nation-states - specifically in cultures of thinking , reading , and writing . The author rethinks rape, or sexual violence, through a close examination of how rape is a pedagogy that has become canonized in the form of rape stories.