Everybody's family romance : reading incest in neoliberal America /
"In the 1990s, a boom in autobiographical novels and memoirs about incest emerged, making incest one of the hottest topics to connect daytime TV talk shows, the self-help industry, and the literary publishing circuit. In Everybody's Family Romance, Gillian Harkins places this proliferation...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: Nobody's home
- Introduction: Everybody's family romance
- Laying down the law: the modernization of American incest
- Legal fantasies: populist trauma and the theater of memory
- Seduction by literature: sexual property and testimonial possession
- Surviving the family romance? Realism and the labor of incest
- Consensual relations: the scattered generations of kinship
- Conclusion: beyond the incest taboo.