The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-century LiteratureOhio State University Press, 2006 - 235 páginas In The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature, Sharon Stockton examines the persistence and the evolution of the rape narrative in twentieth-century literature--the old story of male power and violence; female passivity and penetrability. What accounts for its persistence? How has the story changed over the course of the twentieth century? In this provocative book, Stockton investigates the manner in which the female body--or to be more precise, the violation of the female body--serves as a metaphor for a complex synthesis of masculinity and political economy. From high modernism to cyberpunk, Pound to Pynchon, Stockton argues that the compulsive return to the rape story, articulates--among other things--the gradual and relentless removal of Western man from the fantastical capitalist role of venturesome, industrious agency. The metamorphosis of the twentieth-century rape narrative registers a desperate attempt to preserve traditional patterns of robust, entrepreneurial masculinity in the face of economic forms that increasingly disallow illusions of individual authority. It is important to make clear that the genre of rape story studied here presumes a white masculine subject and a white feminine object. Stockton makes the case that the aestheticized rape narrative reveals particular things about the way white masculinity represents itself. Plotting violent sexual fantasy on the grid of economic concerns locates masculine agency in relation to an explicitly contingent material system of power, value, and order. It is in this way that The Economics of Fantasy discloses the increased desperation with which the body has been made to carry ideology under systems of advanced capitalism. |
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... Murder in the Cathedral , written after , of course , Eliot's religious con- version , the raped woman endures as a dominant , even controlling , image and has become more clearly developed as the blank body through which God will speak ...
... Murder in the Cathedral , written after , of course , Eliot's religious con- version , the raped woman endures as a dominant , even controlling , image and has become more clearly developed as the blank body through which God will speak ...
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... murdered in the wastle- lands of the Bronx . John Irving's protagonists achieve mature masculinity when they acknowledge that a ... murder of George the waiter , the junkie who uses heroin ( junk , shit ) and gets wasted 150 CHAPTER SEVEN.
... murdered in the wastle- lands of the Bronx . John Irving's protagonists achieve mature masculinity when they acknowledge that a ... murder of George the waiter , the junkie who uses heroin ( junk , shit ) and gets wasted 150 CHAPTER SEVEN.
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... murder , and time has safely removed him from the violence of his past . The novel thus accom- plishes an almost surgical removal of violence from masculinity , while nonetheless preserving that connection in grimly epic proportions ...
... murder , and time has safely removed him from the violence of his past . The novel thus accom- plishes an almost surgical removal of violence from masculinity , while nonetheless preserving that connection in grimly epic proportions ...
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The Opposite of Desire: Sex and Pleasure in the Modernist Novel Tonya Krouse Vista previa limitada - 2009 |