Aricle "Politics of Anger and Trauma Disclosure in Michelle Bowdler’s Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation and a Manifesto (2020)“ in COPAS

The article "Politics of Anger and Trauma Disclosure in Michelle Bowdler's Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation and a Manifesto (2020)" by Laura Handl was published in COPAS: Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies Volume 25, Issue 1 (2024) and is now available here. The issue of the peer-to-peer publication was edited by Corina Wieser-Cox, Whitney Frazier Paterson, Juliann Knaus, Florian Wagner, Gulsin Ciftci, and Fenja Heisig. The article focuses on the memoir-manifesto as the intersection of two literary forms and analyzes Michelle Bowdler's Is Rape a Crime? (2020) as representative of this subgenre. Through the autobiographical narrative, the text focuses on Bowdler's affects, specifically her anger at the injustices of US American rape culture, to reveal social truths without adhering to the hegemonic narrative of overcoming trauma.