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State of Peril - Race and Rape in South African Literature (Paperback)
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State of Peril - Race and Rape in South African Literature (Paperback)
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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, Zoe 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.
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