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Rape Narratives that Paved the Way for #MeToo The Crack in the Wall

By Marta Fernández-Morales Copyright 2026
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines a decade of rape memoirs produced by English-speaking women around the emergence of #MeToo as a global phenomenon. It argues that their auto/biographical praxis opened a crack in the long-standing wall of silence that the 2017 online campaign and its echoes, still resonating today, are systematically eroding. Jana Leo, Joanna Connors, Roxane Gay, Myriam Gurba, Chanel Miller,... Read more

Introduction

1. Why Him? Investigating Rape and the Rapist

2. “Something terrible happened”: Roxane Gay’s Hunger

3. Myriam Gurba, or the Power of Being Mean

4. Memoir Without Memory, Justice Without the Justice System

5. Beyond Accountability: Apologies and Forgiveness after Rape

Victory Is Never Final. By Way of Conclusion

Biography

Marta Fernández-Morales holds a PhD from the University of Oviedo. She lectured at the University of the Balearic Islands for twelve years before returning to her alma mater, where she currently teaches literature and gender studies in the English Studies BA and the Gender and Diversity MA. Her research explores American literature, film, and television. She has published in journals such as Feminist Theory, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and Life Writing. She has edited eight scholarly volumes, and this is her fifth book.