Reading rape the rhetoric of sexual violence in American literature and culture, 1790-1990
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J
Princeton University Press
2002
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Table of Contents:
- sexual violence in antebellum American literature and contemporary feminist discourse. "Rape crisis" or "Crisis in sexual identity"? The feminist rhetoric of rape
- "Guilty passions" and "Foul words": the powers of seduction and the racialization of sexual violence
- The deployment of sexual violence and the "cult of secrecy": historicizing the feminist rhetoric of rape. The rise of the (Black) rapist and the reconstruction of difference; or, "realist" rape. "Black claws into soft white throat" and other bestialities: rapist rhetoric, rivalry, and homosocial desire in Thomas Nelson Page's Red rock, Thomas Dixon's The clansman, and Frank Norris's McTeague
- "A tender lamb snatched from the jaws of a hungry wolf": inversions of rapist rhetoric in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy
- "The one crime" and "the real 'one crime'": rape, lynching, and mimicry in Sutton E. Griggs's The Hindered hand
- "A thing not to be faced": rape as robbery in Upton Sinclair's The
- Chester Himes's A case study of rape
- "Plain black (gender) trouble": intraracial rape, incest, and other family feuds
- "Phantom men" and "zipless fucks": rape fantasies and the fictions of female desire
- "An obscene posture that no one could help": sodomy, male anxiety, and the "crisis of homo/heterosexual definition" in James Dickey's Deliverance. Challenging readings of rape