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8%OFFGillian Harkins - Everybody’s Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America - 9780816653485 - V9780816653485
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Everybody’s Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America

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Description for Everybody’s Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.

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 of incest literature at the center of transformations in the political and economic climate of the late twentieth century.

Harkins's interdisciplinary approach reveals how women's narratives about incest were co-opted by-and yet retained resistant strains against-the cultural logics of the neoliberal state. Across chapters examining legal cases on recovered memory, popular journalism, and novels and memoirs by Dorothy ... Read more

In contrast to recent claims that incest narratives eclipse broader frameworks of political and economic power, Harkins argues that their emergence exposes changing structural relations between the family and the nation and, in doing so, transforms the analyses of American familial sexual violence.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816653485
SKU
V9780816653485
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About Gillian Harkins
Gillian Harkins is associate professor of English at the University of Washington.

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