The rape narrative in the American South : a psychoanalytical examination of sexual violence and the melancholic internalization of loss in the modern southern novel /
Shaw, Denise R.
Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-136) and index.
The melancholic tradition of the modern southern novel -- Native sons : violence and the abject white male -- Belle or whore : the troubling construction of southern femininity -- Interracial rape : the big taboo.
American fiction
American fiction
Rape in literature.
Melancholy in literature.
Internalization in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.