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Abstracts:
- »Building on this argument, the book’s afterword turns briefy to the critically acclaimed BBC-HBO series I May Destroy You (2020) as a potential intervention into numerous problematics considered throughout the collection. Moving between the show itself and its paratexts, Patrick argues that I May Destroy You builds a unique relationship between its text/creator Michaela Coel and the viewer/witness to sexual violence. Further, the show’s treatment of race, class, and genre, as well as its production lore usurp long-standing media tropes that are analyzed throughout the book, highlighting Black female artists who draw upon their experiences of gendered violence in their work, while also blurring the lines between fiction and reality. Finally, the political economics of the show are considered in relation to the question of who profits from stories of sexual violence, particularly violence against marginalized communities.« (Source: Stephanie Patrick and Mythili Rajiva. »Introduction.« The Forgotten Victims of Sexual Violence in Film, Television and New Media: Turning to the Margins. Edited by Stephanie Patrick et al. Cham 2022: 18)

- »Michaela Coel’s groundbreaking and genre-defying I May Destroy You (2020, Created by Michaela Coel, BBC; HBO) interrupts many of the tropes discussed throughout this book. The 12-episode series depicts a fictionalized version of Coel’s own sexual assault via the story of Arabella (Coel) who is drugged and raped in a busy London bar by an unidentified white man. As the hazy memories come back to her, Arabella struggles to balance her publisher expectations and her rising “influencer” status as a sexual assault survivor, as her own perspectives on life, gender, and sex shift in response to the trauma that she continues to experience in the aftermath of her rape. In this brief afterword, the author examines the show’s reflexivity, structure, characterization, and production lore to argue that the show unsettles liberal viewers’ comfort with consuming marginalized groups’ trauma and invites us to destroy this genre and this cycle that repeats itself to no (satisfying) end.« (Source: SpringerLink)

Contents:

	12.1 Introduction (p. 225)
	12.2 Destroying the “I” and the “You” of Rape Narratives (p. 227)
	12.3 Breaking Generic Codes (p. 230)
	12.4 Black Female Self-representation and White Feminism (p. 232)
	12.5 Disrupting Exploitative Narratives (p. 237)
	References (p. 240)

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