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| | Sample Chapter for Sielke, S.: Reading Rape: The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, ... |
 | | Literature is central here not so much because, unlike the discourses of the social and natural sciences, it has allowed marginal voices to enter into the conversation on gender, race, and sexuality at an earlier time. |
 | | Literature may have accommodated other perspectives, but their otherness has nonetheless been channeled and limited by the institutional frames in which they appeared. |
 | | I do hold, however, that the analysis of literary texts is particularly revealing for a study focused on the rhetoric of rape, because, on the one hand, (some) literary texts conclusively narrativize and, by way of dispelling contradictions, manage to naturalize sexual violence into seemingly consensual views on gender, sexuality, and the world at large. |
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