{"id":1490,"date":"2023-11-21T11:32:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/etnologi-folkloristik-norden\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2023-11-17T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T09:40:28","slug":"when-the-dam-burst-perspectives-on-genre-and-tellability-in-testimonies-of-rape-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/etnologi-folkloristik-norden\/2023\/11\/21\/when-the-dam-burst-perspectives-on-genre-and-tellability-in-testimonies-of-rape-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Dam Burst: Perspectives on Genre and Tellability in Testimonies of Rape (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sofia Wanstr\u00f6ms doctoral thesis When the Dam Burst: Perspectives on Genre and Tellability in Testimonies of Rape has recently been published. The dissertation defence will be held on 24 november 2023 (read more here<\/a>). The thesis can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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In 2017, the #MeToo movement called attention to the prevalence of sexual violence in all corners of the world, including the Swedish-speaking parts of Finland. A feminist campaign titled Dammen brister published 950 testimonies of sexual harassment and assault that had occurred within the minority, while the call published with the campaign demanded the silence around sexual violence to be broken. Beyond merely breaking a silence, however, the testimonies provide personal insight into the experience of this violence, a valuable aspect that this thesis argues is often overlooked. The campaign does not merely call attention to the problem but also provides knowledge that can broaden our understanding of it. By starting from a folkloristic assumption of a connection between the form, content, and meaning of stories, this thesis moves to consider how these stories are presented. The thesis seeks to provide insight into the social and cultural context that frame and inform how rape is narrated and experienced.
\nThe aim of this thesis is to study how women narrate stories of rape within the campaign, and hence, it focuses on 360 testimonies describing experiences of rape. The breadth of the scope of the campaign meant that a variety of different experiences of rape are presented among the testimonies, conveying the diversity of possible experiences as well as the ambiguity that can surround an experience of rape. Through using a method of close reading and listening, the thesis stays close to the material and proceeds from the ways in which the writers narrate and construct meaning from their experiences. By proceeding from the assumption of tellability as depending on the audience\u2019s ability to hear the stories in the intended way, the Dammen brister campaign is perceived as a space of increased tellability, as it represented a place in which writers could share with the assumption of being believed and validated, rather than questioned and blamed. The concepts of genre and positioning provide theoretical insight into how various narrative structures and strategies are used to convey certain meanings, as well as how the tellable space of Dammen brister allowed the writers to deviate from and challenge narrative expectations, telling both little and a lot.
\nThis thesis provides important insight into the variety of ways in which raped women can narrate their experiences. As a subject that can be difficult to tell, it is argued to be crucial to allow those victimized space to narrate as little or as much as they find necessary in that time and space without requiring them to adhere to a specific structure or discourse. Such understanding of the narration of rape would increase tellability of the subject and hence allow women to interpret and recreate their experiences in their own voice. Thus, this thesis contributes to making women\u2019s own stories of rape to be rendered hearable and respected.<\/p>\n

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H\u00f6sten 2017 uppm\u00e4rksammade MeToo-r\u00f6relsen f\u00f6rekomsten av sexuellt v\u00e5ld i alla h\u00f6rn av v\u00e4rlden, inklusive de svenskspr\u00e5kiga delarna av Finland. En feministisk kampanj med namnet Dammen brister publicerade 950 vittnesm\u00e5l om sexuella trakasserier och \u00f6vergrepp som hade upplevts inom minoriteten, medan uppropet som publicerades i samband med kampanjen kr\u00e4vde att tystnaden kring sexuellt v\u00e5ld skulle brytas. Ut\u00f6ver brytandet av tystnaden ger vittnesm\u00e5len \u00e4ven en inblick i upplevelsen av v\u00e5ldet, en viktig aspekt som denna avhandling h\u00e4vdar att det ofta bortses fr\u00e5n. Kampanjen uppm\u00e4rksammar inte bara problemet, utan ger ocks\u00e5 kunskap som kan bredda v\u00e5r f\u00f6rst\u00e5else av det. Med en folkloristisk utg\u00e5ngspunkt, som f\u00f6ruts\u00e4tter ett samband mellan ber\u00e4ttelsers form, inneh\u00e5ll och mening, unders\u00f6ker avhandlingen hur ber\u00e4ttelserna presenteras. D\u00e4rigenom \u00e4mnar avhandlingen ge insikt i de sociala och kulturella sammanhang som ramar in och informerar om hur v\u00e5ldt\u00e4kt ber\u00e4ttas och upplevs.
\nAvhandlingens syfte \u00e4r att studera hur kvinnor ber\u00e4ttar om v\u00e5ldt\u00e4kt inom kampanjen, och fokuserar d\u00e4rf\u00f6r p\u00e5 360 vittnesm\u00e5l som beskriver upplevelser av v\u00e5ldt\u00e4kt. Kampanjens r\u00e4ckvidd inneb\u00e4r att m\u00e5nga olika erfarenheter av v\u00e5ldt\u00e4kt presenteras bland vittnesm\u00e5len, vilket f\u00f6rmedlar m\u00e5ngfalden av m\u00f6jliga erfarenheter samt den tvetydighet som kan omge en upplevelse av v\u00e5ldt\u00e4kt. Med metoderna n\u00e4rl\u00e4sning och lyssnande h\u00e5ller avhandlingen sig n\u00e4ra materialet, och utg\u00e5r fr\u00e5n skribenternas s\u00e4tt att ber\u00e4tta och skapa mening fr\u00e5n sina erfarenheter. Genom att utg\u00e5 fr\u00e5n en uppfattning om ber\u00e4ttbarhet (eng. tellability) som avh\u00e4ngigt publikens f\u00f6rm\u00e5ga att h\u00f6ra ber\u00e4ttelsen p\u00e5 det avsedda s\u00e4ttet, uppfattas kampanjen som en plats med \u00f6kad ber\u00e4ttbarhet, eftersom den erbj\u00f6d skribenterna en plats d\u00e4r de kunde dela sina upplevelser med antagandet om att de skulle bli trodda och validerade, snarare \u00e4n ifr\u00e5gasatta och anklagade. Begreppen genre och positionering ger teoretisk insikt i hur olika ber\u00e4ttarstrukturer och strategier anv\u00e4nds f\u00f6r att f\u00f6rmedla vissa betydelser, samt hur det ber\u00e4ttbara utrymmet i Dammen brister till\u00e4t skribenterna att avvika fr\u00e5n och utmana narrativa f\u00f6rv\u00e4ntningar.
\nDenna avhandling ger insikt i de olika s\u00e4tt v\u00e5ldtagna kvinnor kan ber\u00e4tta sina erfarenheter. Som ett sv\u00e5rt \u00e4mne att ber\u00e4tta om, h\u00e4vdas det vara avg\u00f6rande att l\u00e5ta de utsatta f\u00e5 utrymme att ber\u00e4tta s\u00e5 lite eller s\u00e5 mycket som de vid det tillf\u00e4llet anser n\u00f6dv\u00e4ndigt, utan att kr\u00e4va att de f\u00f6ljer en specifik struktur eller diskurs. En s\u00e5dan f\u00f6rst\u00e5else av ber\u00e4ttandet om v\u00e5ldt\u00e4kt skulle \u00f6ka \u00e4mnets ber\u00e4ttbarhet och d\u00e4rmed ge kvinnor m\u00f6jlighet att tolka och \u00e5terskapa upplevelsen p\u00e5 eget s\u00e4tt. D\u00e4rav bidrar denna avhandling till att g\u00f6ra kvinnors egna ber\u00e4ttelser om v\u00e5ldt\u00e4kt h\u00f6rbara och respekterade.<\/p>\n

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