Rape and Representation

by Nancy K. Miller and John J. Winkler

Book Overview

Rape does not have to happen. The fact that it does--and in the United States a rape is reported every six minutes--indicates that we live in a rape-prone culture where rape or the threat of rape functions as a tool for enforcing sexual difference and hierarchy. Rape and Representation explores how cultural forms construct and reenforce social attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate sexual violence. The essays proceed from the observation that literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023107266X
• ISBN13: 9780231072663
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Representations of Rape in Literature and Other Cultural Products

From Back Cover: The contributors to 'Rape and Representation,'...explore how cultural forms construct and reinforce social attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate sexual violence." ****** CONTENTS: * Introduction: Rereading Rape - Lynn A. Higgins and Brenda R. Silver 1 - PRIOR VIOLENCE 1 - The Education of Chloe: Erotic Protocols and Prior Violence - John J. Winkler 2 - The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours - Patricia Klindienst Joplin II - THE RHETORIC OF ELISION 3 - The Marquise's 'O' and the Mad Dash of Narrative - Susan Winnett 4 - 'A Little More than Persuading'" Tess and the Subject of Sexual Violence - Ellen Rooney 5 - Periphrasis, Power, and Rape in 'A Passage to India' - Brenda R. Silver III - WRITING THE VICTIM 6 - 'Lucrece': The Sexual Politics of Subjectivity - Coppelia Kahn 7 - Rape, Repression, and Narrative Form in 'Le Devoir de violence' and 'La Vie et demie'-Eileen Julien 8 - Rape and Textual Violence in Clarice Lispector - Marta Peixoto IV - FRAMING INSTITUTIONS 9 - The Poetics of Rape Law in Medieval France - Kathryn Gravdal 10 - Rape's Disfiguring Figures: Marguerite de Navarre's 'Heptameron', Day 1:10 - Carla Freccero 11 - Alice Walker's 'Advancing Luna--and Ida B. Wells': A Struggle Toward Sisterhood - Nellie V. McKay V - UNTHINKING THE METAPHOR 12 - The Rape of the Rural Muse: Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' as a Version of Pastourelle - Nancy A. Jones 13 - On Ravishing Urns: Keats in His Tradition - Froma I. Zeitlin 14 - Screen/Memory: Rape and Its Alibis in 'Last year at Marienbad' - Lynn A. Higgins