State of Peril - Race and Rape in South African Literature

Informationen zum Autor Lucy Valerie Graham is a Research Fellow at the University of the Western Cape. Klappentext Considering fiction from the colonial era to the present, State of Peril offers the first sustained, scholarly examination of rape narratives in the literature of a country that has extremely high levels of sexual violence. Zusammenfassung Considering fiction from the colonial era to the present, State of Peril offers the first sustained, scholarly examination of rape narratives in the literature of South Africa. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction 1. Danger and Desire: Rape and Seduction in the Colonial Imagination 2. "Like a White Man": "Black Peril", Print Culture and Political Voice in the Making of the Union 3. "A 'Black' or a 'White' Peril?": Writing the Melancholy (Alter)Nation 4. Restaging Rape: Black Writing and Sexual Apartheid 5. "History Speaking": Sexual Violence and Post-Apartheid Narratives Conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Valerie Graham
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2015
• EAN: 9780190256418
• ISBN: 978-0-19-025641-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Africa / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, African History, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity