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

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

Field, Robin E.

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Series: Clemson University Press W/ Lup

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1638041725
ISBN13: 9781638041726
Publisher: Clemson University Press W/ Lup
Published: Mar 4 2025
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 violence in American fiction. The rape novel not only foregrounds survivors and their stories in a textual centering that affirms their dignity and self-worth, but also develops new narratological strategies for portraying violent, disturbing subject matter. In bringing together many key women's texts of the last decades of the 20th century, the rape novel demonstrates the centrality of sexual assault to women's fiction of this era. The rape novels of the 21st century continue the political activism inherent in the genre--educating readers, offering community to survivors, and encouraging social activism--as the stories of male survivors are increasingly told. A radical reconsideration of late twentieth-century American novels, Writing the Survivor underscores the importance of women's activism upon the novel's form and content and reveals the portrayal of rape as rape to be an interethnic imperative.

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