Reading Rape
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African Americans
Aggression
American Psycho
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Black people
Captivity narrative
Castration
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Censorship
Charlotte Temple
Chastity
Crime
Decapitation
Deviance (sociology)
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Femininity
Feminism
Feminist literary criticism
Freedman
Gender role
Gender Trouble
Harvard University
Heterosexuality
Homoeroticism
Human female sexuality
Human male sexuality
Human sexual activity
Ideology
Incest
Iola Leroy
Irony
Libido
Literature
Lynching
Male dominance (BDSM)
Masculinity
Miscegenation
Murder
Narrative
Native Son
Only Words (book)
Oppression
Parody
Patriarchy
Pornography
Postmodernism
Prostitution
Racism
Radical feminism
Rape
Rape fantasy
Robbery
Sadomasochism
Seduction
Self-concept
Sentimental novel
Sexology
Sexual assault
Sexual desire
Sexual harassment
Sexual intercourse
Sexual violence
Shame
Slave narrative
Slavery
Subjectivity
Subtext
The House of Mirth
Violence
Violence against women
Voyeurism
White people
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691005010
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 24 Feb 2002
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Reading Rape examines 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. Through attentive readings of a wide range of literary and cultural representations of sexual assault--from antebellum seduction narratives and "realist" representations of rape in nineteenth-century novels to Deliverance, American Psycho, and contemporary feminist accounts--Sabine Sielke traces the evolution of a specifically American rhetoric of rape. She considers the kinds of cultural work that this rhetoric has performed and finds that rape has been an insistent figure for a range of social, political, and economic issues. Sielke 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. At the same time, her acute analyses of both canonical and lesser-known texts explore the complex anxieties that motivate such constructions and their function within the wider cultural imagination.
Provoked in part by contemporary feminist criticism, Reading Rape also challenges feminist positions on sexual violence by interrogating them as part of the history in which rape has been a convenient and conventional albeit troubling trope for other concerns and conflicts. This book teaches us what we talk about when we talk about rape. And what we're talking about is often something else entirely: power, money, social change, difference, and identity.
Sabine Sielke is Professor of American Literature and Culture and Director of the North American Program at the Universitat Bonn. Her publications include Fashioning the Female Subject and four edited volumes: Theory in Practice, Gender Matters, Engendering Manhood, and Making America.
