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Autore |
Kilby Jane (Jane Elizabeth) |
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Titolo |
Violence and the cultural politics of trauma [[electronic resource] /] / Jane Kilby |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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0-7486-5304-X |
1-281-25225-5 |
9786611252250 |
0-7486-2883-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (161 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Rape in mass media |
Sexual abuse victims |
Incest - Social aspects |
Rape - Social aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-134) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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COPYRIGHT; Contents; Preface: Putting it Lightly: The History and Future of Speaking Out About Violence; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Undoing The Force of Violence; CHAPTER 1 It's All in the Reading: Moving Beyond the False Memory Syndrome Debates; CHAPTER 2 In All Innocence: Repression and Sylvia Fraser's My Father's House; CHAPTER 3 Without Insight: Survivor Art and the Possibility of Redemption; CHAPTER 4 All Trauma, Talk and Tears: In the Event of Speaking Out on TV; Bibliography; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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During the late 1970's and 1980's speaking out about the traumatic reality of incest and rape was a rare and politically groundbreaking act. Today it is a ubiquitous feature of popular culture and its political value uncertain. In Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma, Jane Kilby explores the complexity and consequences of this shift in giving first-hand testimony by focusing on debates over recovered memory therapy and false memory syndrome, the spectacle of talk show disclosures, discourses of innocence and complicity as well as the aesthetics and affect of shock. In counterpoint to the... |
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