The Politics of Survivorship

Incest, Women's Literature, and Feminist Theory

Author: Rosaria Champagne
ISBN: 9780814715437

The topic of incest began to emerge in the early 1990s, producing a spate of television specials and providing the material for a surging industry of talk shows as well as an anti-feminist campaign against incest survivors and their therapists. The validity, reality, and readability of recovered memories of incest has become a highly contested and difficult subject. This heightened interest has benefited incest survivors, according to Rosaria Champagne, by allowing them to speak up and make political their experiences. Victims, formerly entwined in their own abuse by remaining silent, have learned to voice their protest and to challenge the societal order that allows incest to occur. In The Politics of Survivorship Champagne explores a range of cultural representations of incest, from the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to mother-daughter incest in contemporary true crime novels, to Oprah Winfrey's television special Scared Silent, in order to examine expressions of survivorshi

Publisher: NYU Press
Publish Date: 1998-06-01

Subjects: Health & Fitness / Sexuality, Literary Criticism / Feminist, Literary Criticism / Women Authors, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Gender Studies

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