{"product_id":"literary-trauma-deborah-m-horvitz-9780791447123","title":"Literary Trauma: Sadism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in American Women's Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines representations of political, psychological, and sexual violence in seven novels by American women.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines portrayals of political and psychological trauma, particularly sexual trauma, in the work of seven American women writers. Concentrating on novels by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pauline Hopkins, Gayl Jones, Leslie Marmon Silko, Dorothy Allison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Margaret Atwood, Horvitz investigates whether memories of violent and oppressive trauma can be preserved, even transformed into art, without reproducing that violence. The book encompasses a wide range of personal and political traumas, including domestic abuse, incest, rape, imprisonment, and slavery, and argues that an analysis of sadomasochistic violence is our best protection against cyclical, intergenerational violence, a particularly timely and important subject as we think about how to stop \"hate\" crimes and other forms of political and psychic oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deborah M. Horvitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 079144712X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791447123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.91h x 5.83w x 0.39d","brand":"Deborah M. Horvitz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48136163361023,"sku":"9780791447123","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_23fd2ea6-f701-420a-bb5c-3b96ecb6b5a3.jpg?v=1770160934","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/literary-trauma-deborah-m-horvitz-9780791447123","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}