That Sounds More Like Something Aarfy Would Do: Conflicting Portrayals of Sexual Assault in Catch-22 and Something Happened
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. He...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1a5acec918c54583a7c2c02065b3820a2024-02-14T13:19:09ZengEuropean Association for American StudiesEuropean Journal of American Studies1991-933616210.4000/ejas.16924That Sounds More Like Something Aarfy Would Do: Conflicting Portrayals of Sexual Assault in Catch-22 and Something HappenedIan M. RogersJoseph 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.https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/16924sexual assaultadaptationJoseph HellerCatch-22Something Happenedrape |
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| title | That Sounds More Like Something Aarfy Would Do: Conflicting Portrayals of Sexual Assault in Catch-22 and Something Happened |
| title_full | That Sounds More Like Something Aarfy Would Do: Conflicting Portrayals of Sexual Assault in Catch-22 and Something Happened |
| title_fullStr | That Sounds More Like Something Aarfy Would Do: Conflicting Portrayals of Sexual Assault in Catch-22 and Something Happened |
| title_full_unstemmed | That Sounds More Like Something Aarfy Would Do: Conflicting Portrayals of Sexual Assault in Catch-22 and Something Happened |
| title_short | That Sounds More Like Something Aarfy Would Do: Conflicting Portrayals of Sexual Assault in Catch-22 and Something Happened |
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