Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: What We Talk about When We Talk about Rape 1
5. CHAPTER ONE. Seduced and Enslaved: Sexual Violence in Antebellum American Literature and Contemporary Feminist Discourse 12
6. CHAPTER TWO. The Rise of the (Black) Rapist and the Reconstruction of Difference; or, “Realist” Rape 33
7. CHAPTER THREE. Rape and the Artifice of Representation: Four Modernist Modes 75
8. CHAPTER FOUR. Voicing Sexual Violence, Repoliticizing Rape: Post-Modernist Narratives of Sexuality and Power 139
9. AFTERWORD. Challenging Readings of Rape 179
10. Notes 190
11. Works Cited and Consulted 211
12. Index 233