LEADER 04382oam 2200769I 450 001 9910791920803321 005 20230725021509.0 010 $a1-136-61584-9 010 $a1-283-54754-6 010 $a9786613859990 010 $a1-136-61585-7 010 $a0-203-47973-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203479735 035 $a(CKB)2560000000089337 035 $a(EBL)995701 035 $a(OCoLC)829462043 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000701266 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11373941 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000701266 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10672641 035 $a(PQKB)11049791 035 $a(OCoLC)808366985 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC995701 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL995701 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10592806 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL385999 035 $a(OCoLC)520649981 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB139075 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000089337 100 $a20180706d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aFeminism, literature and rape narratives $eviolence and violation /$fedited by Sorcha Gunne and Zoe Brigley Thompson 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures ;$v27 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-89668-1 311 $a0-415-80608-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Feminism, Literatureand Rape Narratives; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Feminism without Borders: The Potentials and Pitfalls of Retheorizing Rape; 2. Rape by Proxy in Contemporary Caribbean Women's Fiction; 3. Sabotaging the Language of Pride: Toni Morrison's Representations of Rape; 4. Revising Chicana Womanhood: Gender Violence in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street; 5. Between 'Awra and Arab Feminism: Sexual Violence and Representational Crisis in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero 327 $a6. Writing Rape: The Politics of Resistance in Yvonne Vera's Novels7. II/legitimacy: Sexual Violence, Mental Health and Resisting Abjection in Camilla Gibb's Mouthing the Words and Elizabeth Ruth's Ten Good Seconds of Silence; 8. Testimony and Silence: Sexual Violence and the Holocaust; 9. 'Mum Is the Word': Gender Violence, Displacement and the Refugee Camp in Yasmin Ladha's Documentary-Fiction; 10. Double Violation? (Not) Talking about Sexual Violence in Contemporary South Asia 327 $a11. Questioning Truth and Reconciliation: Writing Rape in Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit and Kagiso Lesego Molope's Dancing in the Dust12. Signifying Rape: Problems of Representing Sexual Violence on Stage; 13. The Wound and the Mask: Rape, Recovery and Poetry in Pascale Petit's The Wounded Deer: Fourteen Poems after Frida Kahlo; 14. Rape, Power, Realism and the Fantastic on Television; List of Editors and Contributors; Index 330 $aThe essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the contributors aim to incorporate arguments about trauma and resistance in order to establish new dimensions of healing. This book makes a vital contribution to the fields of literary studies and feminism, since while other volumes have focused on retroactive portrayals of rape in literature, to date none has focused entirely on the subversive work tha 410 0$aRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures ;$v27. 606 $aFeminist literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRape in literature 606 $aViolence in literature 606 $aWomen in literature 615 0$aFeminist literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRape in literature. 615 0$aViolence in literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 676 $a809.933556 676 $a809/.933556 701 $aBrigley$b Zoe$01519013 701 $aGunne$b Sorcha$f1980-$01519014 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791920803321 996 $aFeminism, literature and rape narratives$93756883 997 $aUNINA