{"product_id":"reading-rape-the-rhetoric-of-sexual-violence-in-american-literature-and-culture-17901990-9780691005010","title":"Reading Rape  The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latter twentieth century, rape achieved such significance as a trope of power relations. This book argues that the representation of rape has been a major force in the cultural construction of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, class, and indeed national identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With its insightful readings of a broad array of texts, unusual juxtapositions of less canonical works, and controversial engagement with a range of feminist and cultural studies texts, this book is certain to draw considerable interest from within and outside of the academy.\"\u003cb\u003e—Valerie Smith, Princeton University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReading Rape\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating work of literary and cultural analysis that will help to shape our debates about rape and representation for some time to come.\"\u003cb\u003e—Michael Awkward, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii  Introduction:What We Talk about When We Talk about Rape 1  CHAPTER ONE Seduced and Enslaved:Sexual Violence in Antebellum American Literature and Contemporary Feminist Discourse 12  \"Rape Crisis \"or \"Crisis in Sexual Identity\"? The Feminist Rhetoric of Rape 13  \"Guilty Passions\" and\" Foul Words\": The Powers of Seduction and the Racialization of Sexual Violence 15  The Deployment of Sexual Violence and the\" Cult of Secrecy\": Historicizing the Feminist Rhetoric of Rape 27  CHAPTER TWO The Rise of the (Black) Rapist and the Reconstruction of Difference; or, \"Realist\" Rape 33  \"Black Claws into Soft White Throat\" and Other Bestialities: Rapist Rhetoric, Rivalry, and Homosocial Desire in Thomas Nelson Page's Red Rock, Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, and Frank Norris's McTeague 35  \"A Tender Lamb Snatched from the Jaws of a Hungry Wolf\": Inversions of Rapist Rhetoric in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy 50  \"The One Crime\" and \"the Real 'One Crime '\": Rape, Lynching, and Mimicry in Sutton E.Griggs's The Hindered Hand 54  \"A Thing Not to Be Faced\": Rape as Robbery in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle 59  \"Unconscious Penetration\": Manners, Money, and the Primitive Man in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth 64  \"The Kind We Can't Resist\": The Lesson of William Vaughn Moody's A Sabine Woman 68  CHAPTER THREE Rape and the Artifice of Representation: Four Modernist Modes 75  \"Soiled! Despoiled! Handled! Mauled! Rumpled! Rummaged! Ransacked!\": Styles and Hyperboles of Seduction, Rape, and Incest in Djuna Barnes's Ryder 77  \"That Little Hot Ball inside You That Screams\": Rape's Resistance to Representation, the Resistance to Rape, and the Transgression of Boundaries in William Faulkner's Sanctuary 86  \"Not What One Did to Women\": Enacting Projections and Constructing the Racial Border in Richard Wright's Native Son 103  Fighting \"Forced Relationship\": Rape and Manslaughter in Ann Petry's The Street 116  CHAPTER FOUR Voicing Sexual Violence, Repoliticizing Rape: Post-Modernist Narratives of Sexuality and Power 139  \"Mankind's Greatest Crime, Man's Inhumanity to Man\": Chester Himes's A Case ofRape 145  \"Plain Black (Gender) Trouble\": Intraracial Rape, Incest, and Other Family Feuds 150  \"Phantom Men\" and\" Zipless Fucks\": Rape Fantasies and the Fictions of Female Desire 159  \"An Obscene Posture That No One Could Help\": Sodomy, Male Anxiety, and the\" Crisis of Homo\/Heterosexual Definition\" in James Dickey's Deliverance 171  AFTERWORD: Challenging Readings of Rape 179  Notes 191  Work Cited and Consulted 211  Primary Texts 211  Secondary Sources 213  Index 233","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403668529495,"sku":"9780691005010","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691005010.jpg?v=1730484203","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-rape-the-rhetoric-of-sexual-violence-in-american-literature-and-culture-17901990-9780691005010","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}