What is it about?
The essay is about the performance and staging of rape, where the interpersonal violence of rape is used as a metaphor to express something else: often, war and colonial violence. The essay looks at the staging of the vulnerable body in these theatre productions, and the tension between the body which is subjected to the violence, and the use of the body as a symbol of the defeated community or nation.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
The essay interrogates the use of rape as a metaphor. This a common strategy, but is one that detracts from the lived, embodied experience of rape and sexual violence.
Perspectives
I think it's important to look at how sexual violence is staged and written because it tells us a lot about the unspoken assumptions and beliefs we share about this urgent issue.
Dr Lisa Fitzpatrick
University of Ulster
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: The Vulnerable Body on Stage: Reading Interpersonal Violence in Rape as Metaphor, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-31388-7_11.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
