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- Title
The Right (Way) to Represent: The Emotional Politics of Remembering Mass Rape in Germany After 1945.
- Authors
Stone, Katherine
- Abstract
A Woman in Berlin (1954) has undoubtedly shaped global understanding of wartime rape. The present article focuses on the diarist's use of humor to process her disorientation, assert her subjectivity, and build affective links with other victims. I consider how the diary's tone influenced its reception and thus how aesthetic analysis might illuminate the conditions under which stories about sexual violence become audible, as well as the ways in which the "cultural politics of emotion" (to quote the title of Sarah Ahmed's 2004 study) can both foster and obstruct human rights projects.
- Subjects
GERMANY; RAPE &; psychology; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; HUMAN rights; MEMORY; PRACTICAL politics; PUBLISHING; CRIME victims; WAR; WIT &; humor; WOMEN'S health; PSYCHOLOGY of women; DIARY (Literary form)
- Publication
Violence Against Women, 2019, Vol 25, Issue 13, p1522
- ISSN
1077-8012
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077801219869540