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Writing the Survivor

The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvRobin E. Field

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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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Utgivningsdatum2025-03-04
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieClemson University Press w/ LUP
Antal sidor276
FörlagClemson University Digital Press
ISBN9781638041726

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Robin E. Field is Professor of English at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She is co-editor of Transforming Diaspora: Communities beyond National Boundaries (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011) and has authored articles and book chapters on Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, Alice Walker, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Ayad Akhtar. Her research interests include gender, trauma, contemporary literature, and postcolonial studies. She is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Learning and teaching at King’s College and the Managing Editor of the journal South Asian Review.

Introduction: Rethinking Rape in the American Cultural and Literary LandscapeChapter One: Rape Consciousness: From Activism to TextChapter Two: Breaking Silence, Telling Tales: Writing Rape in Novels of the 1970sChapter Three: “The Victim Demands Narrative”: Writing the Perspective of the Rape Victim-Survivor in the Long 1980sChapter 4: Tracing Trauma in Rape Fiction of the Long 1990sChapter 5: Writing the Male Rape Survivor: The Rape Novel in the Twenty-First Century

‘Scholars who study rape representation in any form of literature or media, regardless of whether or not it’s from the twentieth century, will benefit from Field’s keen and critical eye for the underpinnings of the way literary rape has been produced and consumed in various forms. Moving from women’s memoir to women’s movements in the early twentieth century to later twentieth-century fiction by women, to movements by male victims of rape, to men’s fiction, and to men’s memoirs, Field’s careful tracing of the rape novel’s development comes to a fulfilling conclusion.’ Michaela Tashjian, Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies