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State of Peril - Race and Rape in South African Literature (Paperback) Loot Price: R983
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State of Peril - Race and Rape in South African Literature (Paperback): Lucy Valerie Graham

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

Lucy Valerie Graham

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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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 2015
Authors: Lucy Valerie Graham (Research Fellow)
Dimensions: 235 x 158 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-025641-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Humanities > History > African history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Political control & influence > Political oppression & persecution > General
Books > History > African history > General
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LSN: 0-19-025641-9
Barcode: 9780190256418

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