Writing the survivor : the rape novel in late twentieth-century American fiction / Robin E. Field.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Field, Robin E., 1976- author.

Contributor:

Liverpool University Press, associated with work.

Series:

Liverpool scholarship online.

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Rape in literature.

Rape victims in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Clemson : Clemson University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This volume identifies a new genre of American fiction, the rape novel, that recentres narratives of sexual violence on the survivors of violence and abuse, rather than the perpetrators. The rape novel arose during the women's liberation movement as women writers collectively challenged the traditional erasure of female subjectivity and agency found in earlier representations of sexual violence in American fiction. The rape novel not only foregrounds survivors and their stories in a textual centering that affirms their dignity and self-worth, but also develops new narratological strategies for portraying violent, disturbing subject matter. In bringing together many key women's texts of the last decades of the 20th century, the rape novel demonstrates the centrality of sexual assault to women's fiction of this era.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 4, 2021).

Published in association with Liverpool University Press.

This edition previously issued in print: 2020.

ISBN:

1-80034-183-0

1-942954-84-0