Sexual Violations and the Question of Experience
Journal article
Alcoff, Linda Martín. (2014). Sexual Violations and the Question of Experience. New Literary History. 45(3), pp. 445 - 462. https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2014.0030
Authors | Alcoff, Linda Martín |
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Abstract | This paper explores the complications of naming and interpreting experiences of sexual violation that arise from the complexity of experience and the possibility of a discursive relativism. If our experiences are discursively and historically constituted, even in part, by the happenstance of the cultures we are born into, by what Foucault wonderfully called our historical a priori, how does this alter the epistemic status, and fruitfulness, of experience claims, and the epistemic authority of survivors? I argue that interpretive processes are usefully understood as occurring within a phenomenological context and as a practice of enacting affordances: in this way variability can be explained without obviating the special epistemic status of survivors. |
Year | 2014 |
Journal | New Literary History |
Journal citation | 45 (3), pp. 445 - 462 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2014.0030 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-84911874317 |
Page range | 445 - 462 |
Research Group | Institute for Social Justice |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
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