LEADER 04634nam 2200829 a 450 001 9910814956103321 005 20221207181807.0 010 $a1-4008-2494-X 010 $a9786612157622 010 $a1-282-15762-0 010 $a1-4008-1468-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824946 035 $a(CKB)111056486498194 035 $a(EBL)457913 035 $a(OCoLC)436046133 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000233063 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11202452 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233063 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10214796 035 $a(PQKB)10433978 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36056 035 $a(DE-B1597)446235 035 $a(OCoLC)979741606 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824946 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457913 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312597 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215762 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457913 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486498194 100 $a20010608d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReading rape $ethe rhetoric of sexual violence in American literature and culture, 1790-1990 /$fSabine Sielke 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (251 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-00501-X 311 0 $a0-691-00500-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-232) and index. 327 $tIntroduction: What We Talk about When We Talk about Rape --$tSeduced and Enslaved: Sexual Violence in Antebellum American Literature and Contemporary Feminist Discourse --$tThe Rise of the (Black) Rapist and the Reconstruction of Difference; or, "Realist" Rape --$tRape and the Artifice of Representation: Four Modernist Modes --$tVoicing Sexual Violence, Repoliticizing Rape: Post-Modernist Narratives of Sexuality and Power --$tAfterword: Challenging Readings of Rape. 330 $aReading 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. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRape in literature 606 $aFeminism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aEnglish language$zUnited States$xRhetoric 606 $aRape$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aRape victims in literature 606 $aSex crimes in literature 606 $aViolence in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRape in literature. 615 0$aFeminism and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aEnglish language$xRhetoric. 615 0$aRape$xHistory. 615 0$aRape victims in literature. 615 0$aSex crimes in literature. 615 0$aViolence in literature. 676 $a813.009/355 700 $aSielke$b Sabine$f1959-$01691694 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814956103321 996 $aReading rape$94068259 997 $aUNINA