State of peril : race and rape in South African literature /

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Author / Creator:Graham, Lucy Valerie, 1973-
Imprint:London ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Description:x, 253 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9039095
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ISBN:9780199796373 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0199796378 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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. Lucy Graham demonstrates how, despite the fact that most incidents of rape in South Africa are not interracial, narratives of interracial rape have dominated the national imaginary. Seeking to understand this phenomenon, the study draws on Michel Foucault's ideas on sexuality and biopolitics, as well as Judith Butler's speculations on race and cultural melancholia. Historical analysis of the body politic provides the backdrop for careful, close readings of literature by Olive Schreiner, Sol Plaatje, Sarah Gertrude Millin, Njabulo Ndebele, J.M. Coetzee, Zoë Wicomb and others. Ultimately, State of Peril argues for ethically responsible interpretations that recognize high levels of sexual violence in South Africa while parsing the racialized inferences and assumptions implicit in literary representations of bodily violation."--Publisher's website.

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505 0 |a Danger and Desire: Rape and Seduction in the Colonial Imagination "Wild Savages" and "Treasure Chests": Rape and Romance in Southern African Contact Narratives. "A Black Woman Wasn't White!": Race and Rape in Olive Schreiner's Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland ; "The Inexpiable Outrage Remains": Black Combatants, Chivalry and the South African War. -- "Like a White Man": "Black Peril", Print Culture and Political Voice in the Making of the Union. "Wholly Bestial and Mad with Burning Revenge": (Dis)enfranchisement and Contest in Francis Bancroft's Of Like Passions ; "Catching her by the Throat": Political and Literary Struggles in George Webb Hardy's The Black Peril ; "His Sonorous Voice": George Heaton Nicholls Bayete! and the Black Vote. -- "A 'Black' or a 'White' Peril?": Writing the Melancholy (Alter)Nation. Daphne Rooke's Mittee in America and South Africa. -- Restaging Rape: Black Writing and Sexual Apartheid. "Black Peril" and Mimicry in Arthur Maimane's Victims ; "White Peril" Narratives by Farida Karodia and Lauretta Ngcobo ; "When Victims Spit on Victims": Intraracial Rape in Short Stories by Njabulo Ndebele, Gcina Mhlophe and Baleka Kgositile. -- "History Speaking": Sexual Violence and Post-Apartheid Narratives. Reading the Unspeakable: Rape in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace ; Traces of Violation in Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit and Zoë Wicomb's David's Story ; "(Not) Like a Woman": Male Rape in Bildungsromane of the Post-Apartheid Transition ; "Save Us All": Tshepang and the New Nation. 
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