After Silence: Rape & My Journey Back Tapa blanda - 1999
de Nancy Venable Raine
A poet and essayist relates her personal experience with rape, refusing to "lose herself--and the reader--in self pity. Instead, she exposes society's fear of and discomfort with the most intimate crime" ("Newsweek").
Primera línea
On an October afternoon in 1985 I was raped by a stranger who crept through the open back door of my apartment while I was taking out the trash.
Descripción de la solapa
"Silence has the rusty taste of shame. The words "shut up are the most terrible words I know. . . . The man who raped me spat these words out over and over during the hours of my attack--when I screamed, when I tried to talk him out of what he was doing, when I protested. It seemed to me that for seven years--until at last I spoke--these words had sunk into my soul and become prophecy. And it seems to me now that these words, the brutish message of tyrants, preserve the darkness that still covers this pervasive crime. The real shame, as I have learned, is to consent to them."
After Silence is Nancy Venable Raine's eloquent, profoundly moving response to her rapist's command to "shut up," a command that is so often echoed by society and internalized by rape victims. Beginning with her assault by a stranger in her home in 1985, Raine's riveting narrative of the ten-year aftermath of her rape brings to light the truth that survivors of traumatic experiences know--a trauma does not end when you find yourself alive.
Just as devastating as the rape itself was the silence that shrouded it, a silence born of her own feelings of shame as well as the incomprehension of others. Raine gives shape, form, and voice to the "unspeakable" and exposes the misconceptions and cruelties that surround this prevalent though hidden crime. With formidable power and in intimate detail, she probes the long-term psychological and physiological aftereffects of rape, its tangled sexual confusions, the treatment of rape by the media and the legal and medical professions, and contemporary cultural views of victimhood.
For anyone, female or male, who has suffered from or witnessed the shatteringeffects of rape, After Silence inspires and points the way to healing. This landmark book is a stunning literary achievement that is a testimony to the power of language to transform the worst sort of violation and suffering into meaning and into art.
Detalles
- Título After Silence: Rape & My Journey Back
- Autor Nancy Venable Raine
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición 1st Pbk. Ed
- Páginas 288
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Crown Publishing Group (NY)
- Fecha de publicación August 3, 1999
- ISBN 9780609804193 / 0609804197
- Peso 0.7 libras (0.32 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.07 x 5.24 x 0.64 pulgadas (20.50 x 13.31 x 1.63 cm)
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Temas
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Women - Crimes against - United States, Rape victims - United States - Psychology
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Ingram Advance, 08/01/1999, Page 19
- New York Times, 10/31/1999, Page 40
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