The Rape Narrative in the American South: A Psychoanalytical Examination of Sexual Violence and the Melancholic Internalization of Loss in the Modern Southern Novel
The Rape Narrative in the American South: A Psychoanalytical Examination of Sexual Violence and the Melancholic Internalization of Loss in the Modern Southern Novel
Examines how sexual violence, specifically rape, is used as a trope to understand the complex and dysfunctional makeup of the South. This study is informed by the trauma theories of Freud and Caruth, the abjection theory of Julia Kristeva, and Jessica Benjamin's theory of mutuality.
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Examines how sexual violence, specifically rape, is used as a trope to understand the complex and dysfunctional makeup of the South. This study is informed by the trauma theories of Freud and Caruth, the abjection theory of Julia Kristeva, and Jessica Benjamin's theory of mutuality.
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