Everybody's Family Romance : Reading Incest in Neoliberal America /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Harkins, Gillian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Incest in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Inceste dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
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.

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