Sexual violence in western thought and writing: chaste rape

Sexual violence in western thought and writing: chaste rape

Vitanza, Victor J.

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This book focuses on rape narratives as grounding for western thinking about community - from the polis to nation-states - specifically in cultures of thinking , reading , and writing. The author rethinks rape, or sexual violence, through a close examination of how rape is a pedagogy that has become canonizedin the form of rape stories. Victor J. Vitanza is a Professor of English and Rhetorics at Clemson University, USA. INDICE: The Basement: Towards A Re-Introduction - PART I: BROACHING THE ABJECT - How To Think, To Read, To Write Rape? - Thinking, Reading, Writing Rape- PART II: OEDIPAL PLACES AND CASSANDRAIC CHORA - Oedi-Pedagogy - Canon, Obsessive/Hysteric - PART III: FROM THE ATTIC AND BASEMENT TO THE LIVING ROOM - Virtual Rape and Community - Excursus. Rebeginnings, from Architecture to AnArchitexture -

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-11283-4
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 298
  • Fecha Publicación: 20/09/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés