That Sounds More Like Something Aarfy Would Do
Conflicting Portrayals of Sexual Assault in Catch-22 and Something Happened
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6187723 |
|---|---|
| Authors | I Rogers (0000-0001-6910-5319, Rogers (United States), corresponding author), Ian M Rogers |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1991-9336 • E-ISSN: 1991-9336 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/ejas.16924 |
| OpenAlex | W3181740383 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 contains a troubling moment where Yossarian sexually assaults Nurse Duckett in the hospital. The scene, however, contrasts with Heller’s clearer condemnations of assault elsewhere in the novel, particularly the rapes in the Eternal City and Aarfy’s escape from punishment. Heller builds on this thematic use of assault in Something Happened by having Virginia Markowitz, a rape victim, exhibit more complex symptoms of rape trauma. These more successful treatments of assault as an embodiment of power abuse suggest that the Nurse Duckett assault should be viewed as a conflicting outlier of the assaults Heller elsewhere condemns
Criminology · Medical emergency · Poison control · Power (physics · Psychoanalysis · Punishment (psychology · Sexual assault · Stalking · Suicide prevention · History · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Medicine · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Psychology · Social Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law
Sexual Assault on the College Campus
Influences of Fraternity Membership, Athletics, and Male Living Arrangements on Sexual Aggression
Characteristics of rape victims seen in crisis intervention∗
The Fiction of Joseph Heller
Patterns of response among victims of rape
Why Don’t You Just Say It as Simply as That
Male Sex Aggression on a University Campus
Fraternities and Rape on Campus
Bringing Women In, Keeping Women Down
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |