Victor J. Vitanza
Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing: Chaste Rape ,Â focuses on rape scripts and narratives as informed by a sacrificial economy that grounds subjectivity and legitimizes community. In search of tutor texts to rethink these scripts and narratives, Victor J. Vitanza turns to the works of Kate Millett as well as the works of Andrea Dworkin, Susan Brownmiller, Virginia Woolf, and Sigmund Freud. Vitanza rethinks rape through a close examination of how sexual violence is a ,pedagogy, that has become ,canonized, in the form of ,rape, stories. To rethink-reread-rewrite outside this economy, Vitanza combines the work of continental feminisms with philosophies on post-identities and on radical reconsideration of a community without community.
Philosophy,Theory,Literary Fiction,Feminism
Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing: Chaste Rape