Rape Narratives That Paved the Way for #Metoo - The Crack in the Wall

This book examines a decade of rape memoirs produced by English-speaking women around the emergence of #MeToo as a global phenomenon.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. Why Him? Investigating Rape and the Rapist
Chapter 2. "Something terrible happened": Roxane Gay's Hunger
Chapter 3. Myriam Gurba, or the Power of Being Mean
Chapter 4. Memoir without Memory, Justice without the Justice System
Chapter 5. Beyond Accountability: Apologies and Forgiveness after Rape
Victory Is Never Final. By Way of Conclusion

About the author

Marta Fernández-Morales holds a PhD from the University of Oviedo. She lectured at the University of the Balearic Islands for twelve years before returning to her alma mater, where she currently teaches literature and gender studies in the English Studies BA and the Gender and Diversity MA. Her research explores American literature, film, and television. She has published in journals such as Feminist Theory, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and Life Writing. She has edited eight scholarly volumes, and this is her fifth book.

Product details

• Authors: Marta Fernandez-Morales, Marta Fernández-Morales
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 04.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032834269
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3283426-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Literary studies: general, Literary theory