Everybody's family romance
Subtitle: reading incest in neoliberal America
By: Gillian Harkins
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780816653478; 9780816653485
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Nobody's home; title: Introduction: Everybody's family romance; title: Laying down the law: the modernization of American incest; title: Legal fantasies: populist trauma and the theater of memory; title: Seduction by literature: sexual property and testimonial possession; title: Surviving the family romance? Realism and the labor of incest; title: Consensual relations: the scattered generations of kinship; title: Conclusion: beyond the incest taboo