After Silence: Rape and My Journey Back - Hardcover

Raine, Nancy Venable

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517706830 ISBN 13: 9780517706831

Verlag: Crown Pub, 1998

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Book by Raine Nancy Venable

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The author explores the crushing impact of being raped when she was thirty-nine on her mind and spirit, the reasons for her long silence afterward, and the fear, blame, and ignorance with which society treats the issue of rape. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

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e has the rusty taste of shame. The words shut up are the most terrible words I know. . . . The man who raped me spat these words out over and over during the hours of my attack--when I screamed, when I tried to talk him out of what he was doing, when I protested. It seemed to me that for seven years--until at last I spoke--these words had sunk into my soul and become prophecy. And it seems to me now that these words, the brutish message of tyrants, preserve the darkness that still covers this pervasive crime. The real shame, as I have learned, is to consent to them."

After Silence is Nancy Venable Raine's eloquent,  profoundly moving response to her rapist's command to "shut up," a command that is so often echoed by society and internalized by rape victims. Beginning with her assault by a stranger in her home in 1985, Raine's riveting narrative of the ten-year aftermath of her rape brings to light the truth that survivors of traumatic ex

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• Verlag: Crown Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0517706830
• ISBN 13: 9780517706831
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 278