{"product_id":"telling-incest-narratives-of-dangerous-remembering-from-stein-to-sapphire-1","title":"Telling Incest: Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to Sapphire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janice Doane\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e Telling Incest: Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to Sapphire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 164\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2001\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e In the last decade, women's accounts of father-daughter incest have prompted much public debate. Are these accounts true? Are they false? \u003ci\u003eTelling Incest, \u003c\/i\u003e however, asks a different question: what does a believable incest story sound like and why? \u003cbr\u003eExamining the work of writers from Gertrude Stein to Toni Morrison and Dorothy Allison, \u003ci\u003eTelling Incest\u003c\/i\u003e argues that an incest story's plausibility depends upon a shifting set of narrative conventions and cultural expectations. As contexts for telling incest stories have changed, so too have the tasks of those who tell and those who listen. The authors analyze both fictional and nonfiction narratives about father-daughter incest, beginning by scrutinizing the shadowy accounts found in nineteenth-century case records, letters, and narratives. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTelling Incest \u003c\/i\u003enext explores African American stories that shift the blame for incest from the black family to the predations of a paternalistic white culture. Janice Doane and Devon Hodges demonstrate that writers drew upon this reworked incest narrative in the 1970s and early 1980s in order to relate a feminist story about incest, a story that criticizes patriarchal power. This feminist form of the story, increasingly emphasizing trauma and recovery, can be found in such popular books as Alice Walker's \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e and Jane Smiley's \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Acres\u003c\/i\u003e. Doane and Hodges then examine recent memoirs and novels such as Dorothy Allison's \u003ci\u003eBastard Out of Carolina\u003c\/i\u003e and Sapphire's \u003ci\u003ePush, \u003c\/i\u003e narratives that again rework the incest story in an effort to \"tell\" about women's complex experiences of subjugation and hope. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTelling Incest\u003c\/i\u003e will be of particular interest to readers who have enjoyed the popular and culturally significant work of writers such as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Jane Smiley, and Dorothy Allison and to students of women's studies, feminist theory, and cultural studies. \u003cbr\u003eJanice Doane is Professor of English, St. Mary's College of California. Devon Hodges is Professor of English, George Mason University. They have also coauthored From \u003ci\u003eKlein to Kristeva: Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the \"Good Enough\" Mother\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNostalgia and Sexual Difference: The Resistance to Contemporary Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472067947\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e Height: 9 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Weight: 0.6393405598 Pounds, Width: 0.6 Inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e en\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Janice Doane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53112088822067,"sku":"9780472067947","price":32.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/9780472067947.jpg?v=1772757426","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/telling-incest-narratives-of-dangerous-remembering-from-stein-to-sapphire-1","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}