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Journal Article
The postmortal rape survivor and the paradox of female agency across different media: Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones and its 2009 film adaptation
2013
Overview
[2] What sets The Lovely Bones apart from other fiction and non-fiction about sexual crimes against women is the unusual narrative setting employed by Sebold: Susie Salmon, aged 14, brutally raped and murdered on December 6th, 1973 in a cornfield near her home, relates the events leading up to and following her murder at the hands of a neighbour in suburban Pennsylvania from her own personal heaven. Analysing the novel from a postfeminist perspective, Whitney argues that \"the act of naming oneself a survivor symbolically places the subject's trauma in the past and denies the event the ability to define her\" (355). [...]Susie is allowed to define her trauma rather than being defined by it.
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Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier
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