04842nam 2200841 a 450 991045502200332120210827023953.01-4008-2494-X97866121576221-282-15762-01-4008-1468-510.1515/9781400824946(CKB)111056486498194(EBL)457913(OCoLC)436046133(SSID)ssj0000233063(PQKBManifestationID)11202452(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233063(PQKBWorkID)10214796(PQKB)10433978(MiAaPQ)EBC457913(MdBmJHUP)muse36056(DE-B1597)446235(OCoLC)979741606(DE-B1597)9781400824946(Au-PeEL)EBL457913(CaPaEBR)ebr10312597(CaONFJC)MIL215762(EXLCZ)9911105648649819420010608d2002 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrReading rape[electronic resource] the rhetoric of sexual violence in American literature and culture, 1790-1990 /Sabine SielkeCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc20021 online resource (251 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-00501-X 0-691-00500-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-232) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction: What We Talk about When We Talk about Rape --CHAPTER ONE. Seduced and Enslaved: Sexual Violence in Antebellum American Literature and Contemporary Feminist Discourse --CHAPTER TWO. The Rise of the (Black) Rapist and the Reconstruction of Difference; or, "Realist" Rape --CHAPTER THREE. Rape and the Artifice of Representation: Four Modernist Modes --CHAPTER FOUR. Voicing Sexual Violence, Repoliticizing Rape: Post-Modernist Narratives of Sexuality and Power --AFTERWORD. Challenging Readings of Rape --Notes --Works Cited and Consulted --IndexReading 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.American fictionHistory and criticismRape in literatureFeminism and literatureUnited StatesHistoryWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistoryEnglish languageUnited StatesRhetoricRapeUnited StatesHistoryRape victims in literatureSex crimes in literatureViolence in literatureElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.Rape in literature.Feminism and literatureHistory.Women and literatureHistory.English languageRhetoric.RapeHistory.Rape victims in literature.Sex crimes in literature.Violence in literature.813.009/355Sielke Sabine1959-1055525MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455022003321Reading rape2489026UNINA