Feminism, literature and rape narratives : violence and violation / edited by Sorcha Gunne and Zoe Brigley Thompson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brigley, Zoë.

Gunne, Sorcha, 1980-

Series:

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 27.

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist literature--History and criticism.

Feminist literature.

Rape in literature.

Violence in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 tha

Contents:

Cover; Feminism, Literatureand Rape Narratives; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Feminism without Borders: The Potentials and Pitfalls of Retheorizing Rape; 2. Rape by Proxy in Contemporary Caribbean Women's Fiction; 3. Sabotaging the Language of Pride: Toni Morrison's Representations of Rape; 4. Revising Chicana Womanhood: Gender Violence in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street; 5. Between 'Awra and Arab Feminism: Sexual Violence and Representational Crisis in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero

6. Writing Rape: The Politics of Resistance in Yvonne Vera's Novels7. II/legitimacy: Sexual Violence, Mental Health and Resisting Abjection in Camilla Gibb's Mouthing the Words and Elizabeth Ruth's Ten Good Seconds of Silence; 8. Testimony and Silence: Sexual Violence and the Holocaust; 9. 'Mum Is the Word': Gender Violence, Displacement and the Refugee Camp in Yasmin Ladha's Documentary-Fiction; 10. Double Violation? (Not) Talking about Sexual Violence in Contemporary South Asia

11. Questioning Truth and Reconciliation: Writing Rape in Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit and Kagiso Lesego Molope's Dancing in the Dust12. Signifying Rape: Problems of Representing Sexual Violence on Stage; 13. The Wound and the Mask: Rape, Recovery and Poetry in Pascale Petit's The Wounded Deer: Fourteen Poems after Frida Kahlo; 14. Rape, Power, Realism and the Fantastic on Television; List of Editors and Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-61584-9

1-283-54754-6

9786613859990

1-136-61585-7

0-203-47973-4

9780203479735

OCLC:

829462043