Lucy Valerie Graham

State of Peril

Race and Rape in South African Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780190256418
• ISBN-10: 0190256419
• Artikelnr.: 47863130

Autorenporträt

Lucy Valerie Graham is a Research Fellow at the University of the Western Cape.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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