Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing [electronic resource] : Chaste Rape /
Vitanza, V.author.
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 canonized in the form of rape stories.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Sexual Violence in; Also by Victor J. Vitanza; Title; Copyright; Detication; Epigraph; Content; Acknowledgments; The Basement: Toward a Reintroduction; I Broaching the Abject; 1. How Do We Think, Read, Write Rape?; 2. Thinking, Reading, Writing Rape; Excursus: The Assessment-Test Event; II Oedipal Places and Cassandraic Chora; 3. Oedi-Pedagogy; 4. Canon, Obsessive/Hysteric; III From the Attic and Basement to Living Place/Space; Excursus: Rebeginnings, from Architecture to AnArchitexture; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 canonized in the form of rape stories.
Literature—Philosophy.
Sociology.
Feminist theory.
Ethnology.
Literary Theory.
Gender Studies.
Feminism.
Cultural Anthropology.