{"product_id":"everybodys-family-romance-reading-incest-in-neoliberal-america-paperback-softback-9780816653485","title":"Everybody's Family Romance; Reading Incest in Neoliberal America (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816653485","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEverybody's Family Romance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReading Incest in Neoliberal America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGillian Harkins (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816653485\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 November 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 1990s, a boom in autobiographical novels and memoirs about incest emerged, making incest one of the hottest topics to connect daytime TV talk shows, the self-help industry, and the literary publishing circuit. In \u003ci\u003eEverybody's Family Romance\u003c\/i\u003e, Gillian Harkins places this proliferation of incest literature at the center of transformations in the political and economic climate of the late twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHarkins's interdisciplinary approach reveals how women's narratives about incest were co-opted by-and yet retained resistant strains against-the cultural logics of the neoliberal state. Across chapters examining legal cases on recovered memory, popular journalism, and novels and memoirs by Dorothy Allison, Carolivia Herron, Kathryn Harrison, and Sapphire, Harkins demonstrates that incest narratives look backward into the past. In these accounts, images of incest forge links between U.S. chattel slavery and the distributive impasses of the welfare state and between decades-distant childhoods and emergent memories of the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn contrast to recent claims that incest narratives eclipse broader frameworks of political and economic power, Harkins argues that their emergence exposes changing structural relations between the family and the nation and, in doing so, transforms the analyses of American familial sexual violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: Nobody's Home\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Everybody's Family Romance\u003cbr\u003e 1. Laying down the Law: The Modernization of American Incest\u003cbr\u003e 2. Legal Fantasies: Populist Trauma and the Theater of Memory\u003cbr\u003e 3. Seduction by Literature: Sexual Property and Testimonial Possession\u003cbr\u003e 4. Surviving the Family Romance? Realism and the Labor of Incest\u003cbr\u003e 5. Consensual Relations: The Scattered Generations of Kinship\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Beyond the Incest Taboo\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570070515992,"sku":"9780816653485","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/everybodys-family-romance-reading-incest-in-neoliberal-america-paperback-softback-9780816653485","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}