Writing the survivor
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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.
Title |
Writing the survivor : the rape novel in late twentieth-century American fiction / Robin E. Field. [electronic resource] |
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Edition |
First edition. |
Publisher |
Clemson : Clemson University Press |
Creation Date |
2021 |
Notes |
Published in association with Liverpool University Press. This edition previously issued in print: 2020. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Series |
Liverpool scholarship online |
Extent |
1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997012635019705171 |
MARC RECORDS
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