Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction

By: Field, Robin E.

Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction identifies a new genre of American fiction, the rape novel, that recenters narratives of sexual violence on the survivors of violence and abuse, rather than the perpetrators. The rape novel arose during the women's liberation movement as women writers collectively challenged the traditional erasure of female subjectivity and agency found in earlier representations of sexual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1942954832
• ISBN13: 9781942954835
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Clemson University Press W/ Lup
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"