The rhetoric of rape: a critical mapping of the discursive landscape in France = La rhétorique du viol: une recension critique du paysage discursif français

The Rhetoric of Rape: A Critical Mapping of the Discursive Landscape in France comprises three theoretically distinct, but thematically contiguous essays, each of which touches upon the highly contentious topic of 'la tournante'. From the expression 'faire tourner', meaning somet...

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Main Author: Evans, Dylan Sebastian
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13525/
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description The Rhetoric of Rape: A Critical Mapping of the Discursive Landscape in France comprises three theoretically distinct, but thematically contiguous essays, each of which touches upon the highly contentious topic of 'la tournante'. From the expression 'faire tourner', meaning something like 'to hand, or to pass (something) around; to share', the word has taken on an additional, specialized, and more sinister sense: that of gang-rape. In place of the politically polarized lens through which 'la tournante' has been seen, The Rhetoric of Rape offers an alternative set of theoretical, respectively phenomenological (Maurice Merleau-Ponty), linguistic (John Langshaw Austin), and psychoanalytical (Sigmund Freud) perspectives from which the practice and its discursive conditions of possibility — its underlying archaeology — can be mapped. This triangulation of views reveals how certain political (pouvoir), epistemic (savoir), and erotic (plaisir) strategies mobilize rape and its rhetoric.
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spelling nottingham-135252025-02-28T11:25:41Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13525/ The rhetoric of rape: a critical mapping of the discursive landscape in France = La rhétorique du viol: une recension critique du paysage discursif français Evans, Dylan Sebastian The Rhetoric of Rape: A Critical Mapping of the Discursive Landscape in France comprises three theoretically distinct, but thematically contiguous essays, each of which touches upon the highly contentious topic of 'la tournante'. From the expression 'faire tourner', meaning something like 'to hand, or to pass (something) around; to share', the word has taken on an additional, specialized, and more sinister sense: that of gang-rape. In place of the politically polarized lens through which 'la tournante' has been seen, The Rhetoric of Rape offers an alternative set of theoretical, respectively phenomenological (Maurice Merleau-Ponty), linguistic (John Langshaw Austin), and psychoanalytical (Sigmund Freud) perspectives from which the practice and its discursive conditions of possibility — its underlying archaeology — can be mapped. This triangulation of views reveals how certain political (pouvoir), epistemic (savoir), and erotic (plaisir) strategies mobilize rape and its rhetoric. 2013 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en arr https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13525/1/The_Rhetoric_of_Rape_%E2%80%94_A_Critical_Mapping_of_the_Discursive_Landscape_in_France.pdf Evans, Dylan Sebastian (2013) The rhetoric of rape: a critical mapping of the discursive landscape in France = La rhétorique du viol: une recension critique du paysage discursif français. MA(Res) thesis, University of Nottingham. Rape Rhetoric Gender Sexuality France Michel Foucault
spellingShingle Rape
Rhetoric
Gender
Sexuality
France
Michel Foucault
Evans, Dylan Sebastian
The rhetoric of rape: a critical mapping of the discursive landscape in France = La rhétorique du viol: une recension critique du paysage discursif français
title The rhetoric of rape: a critical mapping of the discursive landscape in France = La rhétorique du viol: une recension critique du paysage discursif français
title_full The rhetoric of rape: a critical mapping of the discursive landscape in France = La rhétorique du viol: une recension critique du paysage discursif français
title_fullStr The rhetoric of rape: a critical mapping of the discursive landscape in France = La rhétorique du viol: une recension critique du paysage discursif français
title_full_unstemmed The rhetoric of rape: a critical mapping of the discursive landscape in France = La rhétorique du viol: une recension critique du paysage discursif français
title_short The rhetoric of rape: a critical mapping of the discursive landscape in France = La rhétorique du viol: une recension critique du paysage discursif français
title_sort rhetoric of rape: a critical mapping of the discursive landscape in france = la rhétorique du viol: une recension critique du paysage discursif français
topic Rape
Rhetoric
Gender
Sexuality
France
Michel Foucault
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13525/