College English Nov 1999

Reading Rape Stories: Material Rhetoric and the Trauma of Representation

Wendy S. Hesford

Abstract

Raises questions about the representability of the trauma of rape and the purposes of its representation. Focuses on how the strategic enactment of a culturally dominant rape script can potentially open up a gap within which that script can be contested and the act of rape or death resisted. Discusses pedagogical challenges of teaching the literature of trauma and survival.

Journal
College English
Published
1999-11-01
DOI
10.58680/ce19991163
Open Access
Closed
Topics
body and rhetoric

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