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Acknowledgments vii Introduction:What We Talk about When We Talk aboutRape 1 CHAPTER ONE Seduced and Enslaved:Sexual Violence in AntebellumAmerican Literature and Contemporary Feminist Discourse 12 "Rape Crisis "or"Crisis in Sexual Identity"? The Feminist Rhetoric of Rape 13 "GuiltyPassions" and" Foul Words": The Powers of Seduction and the Racialization ofSexual Violence 15 The Deployment of Sexual Violence and the" Cult ofSecrecy": Historicizing the Feminist Rhetoric of Rape 27 CHAPTER TWO TheRise of the (Black) Rapist and the Reconstruction of Difference; or,"Realist" Rape 33 "Black Claws into Soft White Throat" and OtherBestialities: Rapist Rhetoric, Rivalry, and Homosocial Desire in ThomasNelson Page's Red Rock, Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, and Frank Norris'sMcTeague 35 "A Tender Lamb Snatched from the Jaws of a Hungry Wolf":Inversions of Rapist Rhetoric in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy 50 "TheOne Crime" and "the Real 'One Crime '": Rape, Lynching, and Mimicry in SuttonE.Griggs's The Hindered Hand 54 "A Thing Not to Be Faced": Rape as Robberyin Upton Sinclair's The Jungle 59 "Unconscious Penetration": Manners, Money,and the Primitive Man in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth 64 "The Kind WeCan't Resist": The Lesson of William Vaughn Moody's A Sabine Woman 68CHAPTER THREE Rape and the Artifice of Representation: Four Modernist Modes75 "Soiled! Despoiled! Handled! Mauled! Rumpled! Rummaged! Ransacked!":Styles and Hyperboles of Seduction, Rape, and Incest in Djuna Barnes's Ryder77 "That Little Hot Ball inside You That Screams": Rape's Resistance toRepresentation, the Resistance to Rape, and the Transgression of Boundariesin William Faulkner's Sanctuary 86 "Not What One Did to Women": EnactingProjections and Constructing the Racial Border in Richard Wright's Native Son103 Fighting "Forced Relationship": Rape and Manslaughter in Ann Petry's TheStreet 116 CHAPTER FOUR Voicing Sexual Violence, Repoliticizing Rape:Post-Modernist Narratives of Sexuality and Power 139 "Mankind's GreatestCrime, Man's Inhumanity to Man": Chester Himes's A Case ofRape 145 "PlainBlack (Gender) Trouble": Intraracial Rape, Incest, and Other Family Feuds 150"Phantom Men" and" Zipless Fucks": Rape Fantasies and the Fictions of FemaleDesire 159 "An Obscene Posture That No One Could Help": Sodomy, MaleAnxiety, and the" Crisis of Homo/Heterosexual Definition" in James Dickey'sDeliverance 171 AFTERWORD: Challenging Readings of Rape 179 Notes 191 WorkCited and Consulted 211 Primary Texts 211 Secondary Sources 213 Index 233