Author: Marta Fernández-Morales, Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Francesa y Alemana (Department of English, French and German Philology), Universidad de Oviedo (University of Oviedo) - Academia.edu, Google Scholar, ORCID

Contents:

	Foreword by Jana Leo (p. viii)
	Acknowledgments (p. xiii)
	Setting the Stage (p. 1)
		The Me Too Moment and Its Narrative Politics (p. 3)
		Rape Memoirs as Life Writing (p. 12)
		Navigating This Volume (p. 16)
		Notes (p. 22)
		References (p. 23)
	1 Why Him? Investigating Rape and the Rapist (p. 29)
		Introduction (p. 29)
		Rape and Real Estate: Jana Leo in Robocop World (p. 33)
		Revisiting Rape and the Rapist: Joanna Connors’s Journey (p. 40)
		Conclusion (p. 47)
		Notes (p. 48)
		References (p. 50)
	2 “Something terrible happened”: Roxane Gay’s Hunger (p. 53)
		Introduction (p. 53)
		(Fat) Body Politics and Shame (p. 60)
		The Extended Impact of Rape (p. 70)
		“This Is the Body I Made”: Responsibility and Agency (p. 80)
		Conclusion (p. 86)
		Notes (p. 88)
		References (p. 90)
	3 Myriam Gurba, or the Power of Being Mean (p. 94)
		Introduction (p. 94)
		Hybridity, Genre, and Myriam Gurba’s Mean (p. 95)
		“It’s Ok for Ghosts to Exist Through Me”: Gurba’s Auto/Biographical Praxis (p. 101)
		The ‘Meaning’ of the Rape Narrative Script: Writing Against the Canon (p. 112)
		Conclusion (p. 122)
		Notes (p. 126)
		References (p. 129)
	4 Memoir without Memory, Justice without the Justice System (p. 133)
		Introduction (p. 133)
		From Emily Doe to Chanel Miller (p. 139)
		322 Questions: Memory, Survivor Testimony, Justice (p. 142)
		“I Had a Voice, He Stripped It”: Rape Memoir as Counternarrative (p. 149)
		Doomed If You Remember, Doomed If You Don’t? Conclusion (p. 156)
		Notes (p. 158)
		References (p. 160)
	Chapter 5. Beyond Accountability: Apologies and Forgiveness after Rape (p. 164)
		Introduction (p. 164)
		“I Want to Hate Him, but I Can’t”: Jeannie Vanasco’s Project (p. 170)
		Becoming V: Eve Ensler’s Apology Fantasy p. 177)
		Thordis Elva, or How to Write a Memoir With Your Rapist (p. 185)
		Conclusion (p. 194)
		Notes (p. 196)
		References (p. 197)
	Victory Is Never Final. By Way of Conclusion (p. 202)
		Notes (p. 209)
		References (p. 209)
	Index (p. 211)

Description: »This book examines a decade of rape memoirs produced by English-speaking women around the emergence of #MeToo as a global phenomenon. It argues that their auto/biographical praxis opened a crack in the long-standing wall of silence that the 2017 online campaign and its echoes, still resonating today, are systematically eroding. Jana Leo, Joanna Connors, Roxane Gay, Myriam Gurba, Chanel Miller, Jeannie Vanasco, Eve Ensler, Thordis Elva, and other survivors helped set and reaffirm the bases for the current zeitgeist around sexual violence, characterized by a tsunami of stories in circulation and a growing audience that is more ready than ever to listen to the victims ethically and empathically. This volume offers an in-depth analysis of a literary corpus that contributes to the conversation about the narrative politics of the fourth wave of feminism and some of its key preoccupations, such as consent, accountability, and justice. Of particular value for academics and activists working on/against sexual violence, as well as for life writing and gender studies scholars, it can also be useful to specialists in the fields of ethics, affect theory, trauma studies, memory studies, cultural studies, phenomenology, victimology, or ethnic and minority studies.« (Source: Taylor & Francis Online)

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