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Hesford, Wendy S. – College English, 1999
Raises questions about the representability of the trauma of rape and the purposes of its representation. Focuses on how the strategic enactment of a culturally dominant rape script can potentially open up a gap within which that script can be contested and the act of rape or death resisted. Discusses pedagogical challenges of teaching the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Rape, Rhetoric, Sex Role