Violence and the cultural politics of trauma / Jane Kilby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kilby, Jane (Jane Elizabeth)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rape in mass media.

Sexual abuse victims.

Incest--Social aspects.

Incest.

Rape--Social aspects.

Rape.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

During the late 1970's and 1980's speaking out about the traumatic reality of incest and rape was a rare and politically groundbreaking act. Today it is a ubiquitous feature of popular culture and its political value uncertain. In Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma, Jane Kilby explores the complexity and consequences of this shift in giving first-hand testimony by focusing on debates over recovered memory therapy and false memory syndrome, the spectacle of talk show disclosures, discourses of innocence and complicity as well as the aesthetics and affect of shock. In counterpoint to the...

Contents:

COPYRIGHT; Contents; Preface: Putting it Lightly: The History and Future of Speaking Out About Violence; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Undoing The Force of Violence; CHAPTER 1 It's All in the Reading: Moving Beyond the False Memory Syndrome Debates; CHAPTER 2 In All Innocence: Repression and Sylvia Fraser's My Father's House; CHAPTER 3 Without Insight: Survivor Art and the Possibility of Redemption; CHAPTER 4 All Trauma, Talk and Tears: In the Event of Speaking Out on TV; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-134) and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5304-X

1-281-25225-5

9786611252250

0-7486-2883-5

OCLC:

476145144