Intimate violence: reading rape and torture in twentieth-century fiction

Abstract

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Reading Rape Sanctuary and the Women of Brewster Place 2. Reading Torture 1984 and Amnesty International 3. Sweet Pain and Charred Bodies Figuring Violence in The White Hotel 4. Envisioning Violence Seeing/Selling the Body in Last Exit to Brooklyn 5. American Psycho and the American Psyche Reading the Forbidden Text 6. oKnown in the Brain and Known in the FleshO Gender, Race, and the Vulnerable Body in Tracks Notes Works Cited Index