{"product_id":"conflict-bodies-the-politics-of-rape-representation-in-the-francophone-imaginary-paperback","title":"Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRégine Michelle Jean-Charles\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e explores the relationship between rape and narratives of violence in francophone literature and culture. The book offers ways to account for the raped bodies beneath the conflicts of slavery, genocide, dictatorship, natural disasters and war--and to examine why doing so is necessary. Through a feminist analysis of the rhetoric and representation of rape in francophone African and Caribbean cultural production, \u003ci\u003eConflict Bodies \u003c\/i\u003eexamines theoretical, visual, and literary texts that challenge the dominant views of postcolonial violence. Using an interdisciplinary and comparative framework to consider different contexts--Haiti, Guadeloupe, Rwanda, and Democratic Republic of the Congo--Régine Michelle Jean-Charles illuminates how analyzing survivors' subjectivities, stories, and embodied experiences provides a nuanced understanding of what is at stake in rape representation. Referencing theories from francophone literary studies, transnational black feminisms, and rape cultural criticism to analyze novels, film, photography, drama, and documentaries, Jean-Charles argues that in today's global climate--where one in three women worldwide has been raped, rape is being used as a tool of war, and rape myths circulate with vehemence--traditional \"scripts of violence\" that fail to account for sexual violence demand refusal, re-thinking, and re-imagining.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRégine Michelle Jean-Charles is assistant professor of romance languages and literatures and in the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Boston College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53329598513459,"sku":"9780814252932","price":78.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/RMLhM5FNUL9780814252932.webp?v=1778171333","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/conflict-bodies-the-politics-of-rape-representation-in-the-francophone-imaginary-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}