02742nam 2200577Ia 450 991082174980332120200520144314.00-8166-7057-9(CKB)2520000000008004(EBL)496594(OCoLC)593356105(SSID)ssj0000337441(PQKBManifestationID)11230330(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337441(PQKBWorkID)10289359(PQKB)11416856(MiAaPQ)EBC496594(MdBmJHUP)muse39151(Au-PeEL)EBL496594(CaPaEBR)ebr10372227(CaONFJC)MIL525758(EXLCZ)99252000000000800420090706d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEverybody's family romance reading incest in neoliberal America /Gillian Harkins1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press20091 online resource (338 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-5348-8 0-8166-5347-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface: Nobody's home -- Introduction: Everybody's family romance -- Laying down the law: the modernization of American incest -- Legal fantasies: populist trauma and the theater of memory -- Seduction by literature: sexual property and testimonial possession -- Surviving the family romance? Realism and the labor of incest -- Consensual relations: the scattered generations of kinship -- Conclusion: beyond the incest tabooIn the 1990's, a boom in autobiographical novels and memoirs about incest emerged, making incest one of the hottest topics to connect daytime TV talk shows, the self-help industry, and the literary publishing circuit. In Everybody's Family Romance, Gillian Harkins places this proliferation of incest literature at the center of transformations in the political and economic climate of the late twentieth century. Harkins's interdisciplinary approach reveals how women's narratives about incest were co-opted by-and yet retained resistant strains against-the cultural logics of the neoliberal state. AAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismIncest in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Incest in literature.810.9/3538Harkins Gillian1700953MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821749803321Everybody's family romance4084371UNINA