Sexual violence in western thought and writing : chaste rape / Victor J. Vitanza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vitanza, Victor J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rape in literature.

Violence in literature.

Social values in literature.

Literature and morals.

Literature and society.

Difference (Philosophy) in literature.

Communities--Philosophy.

Communities.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 270 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Chaste rape

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

This book examines how rape and sexual violence have become canonized in the form of rape stories. Through close readings of a wide array of texts, Vitanza offers an exposition, of the ways in which our reading, writing, and thinking practices are complicit in the production of rape culture. To rethink, reread, and rewrite outside this economy, Vitanza combines the work of continental "feminisms, with philosophies on post-identities and radical reconsiderations of communities without community. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Broaching the Abject

1 How Do We Think, Read, Write Rape? 27

2 Thinking, Reading, Writing Rape 57

Excursus: The Assessment-Test Event 97

II Oedipal Places and Cassandraic Chora

3 Oedi-Pedagogy 103

4 Canon Obsessive/Hysteric 147

III From the Attic and Basement to Living Place/Space

Excursus: Rebeginnings, from Architecture to AnArchitexture 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230112834

0230112838

OCLC:

703209396