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... Carmen Maria Machado Latinx identity speculative fiction sexual abuse narrative ...

... as it is happening through language. The chapter’s examination of the speculative female body in Machado’s work unearths unexpected narrative strategies, literary patterns, and networks. These networks are particularly significant in our contemporary moment, in which difficult conversations about sexual abuse...

... of childhood sexual abuse—to show how it and the sexual misconduct allegations that followed complicate the common reading of his work as decolonial fiction. Junot Díaz Afro-Latinx fukú americanus postapocalyptic space post/colonial narrative ...

... perpetrated by men and boys. Her madness—likely the result of decades of abuse and trauma—culminates in the murder and mutilation of a man who, like so many before him, seeks to sexually objectify her. Eva’s violence as a terrible catharsis unleashed upon (an individual who becomes proxy for) a racist-sexist...

... While the most bizarre charges of satanic ritual abuse that convulsed communities during the 1980s have slowed, false accusations and wrongful convictions of child sexual abuse continue apace, along with ever-broader definitions and more draconian penalties for sex offenses. Human rights...