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Author Tanner, Laura E., 1961-

Title Intimate violence : reading rape and torture in twentieth-century fiction / Laura E. Tanner.

Imprint Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1994.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.509355 T157i    ---  Available
Description xiii, 155 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-152) and index.
Contents Reading rape : Sanctuary and The women of Brewster Place --Reading torture : 1984 and Amnesty International -- Sweet pain and charred bodies : figuring violence in The white hotel -- Envisioning violence : seeing/selling the body in Last exit to Brooklyn -- American psycho and the American psyche : reading the forbidden text -- "Known in the brain and known in the flesh" : gender, race, and the vulnerable body in Tracks.
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Victims of crimes in literature.
Human body in literature.
Reader-response criticism.
Violence in literature.
Torture in literature.
Women in literature.
Rape in literature.
ISBN 0253356482 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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