State of Peril

Race and Rape in South African Literature

AvLucy Valerie Graham

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

This is a study of South African literature through the prism of narratives of sexual violence. While most incidents of sexual assault in South Africa are not interracial, narratives of interracial rape have dominated the national imaginary. South African literature has again and again circled back to images of "black peril" (representations of the rape of white women by black men) and "white peril" representations that show the rape of colonised women by colonising men. Taking an historical and comparative perspective, the book uses as theoretical underpinning Michel Foucault's ideas on sexuality and biopolitics and Judith Butler's speculations on race and cultural melancholia. Avoiding a simplistic feminist perspective, the book examines the complex ways in which race, gender and class work together in the literary texts under examination. Where relevant, it examines the production, dissemination and reception of the selected texts. The books argues for an ethically responsible and dialectical approach that recognises high levels of sexual violence in South Africa, but also examines the racialised inferences and assumptions implicit in representations of bodily violation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-05-24
Mått:239 x 165 x 22 mm
Vikt:530 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Academic
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780199796373

Utforska kategorier

Afrikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Politiskt förtryck inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Lucy Valerie Graham is a lecturer in English at Stellenbosch University.

Recensioner i media

State of Peril effectively remaps the corpus of South African literature to produce an alternative trajectory which highlights issues of race and gender violence ... [It] constitutes an important intervention in the proliferating discourses on sexual violence at the present time, as it goes a long way in demystifying the long and problematic history of racist representations in relation to rape.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface ; Introduction ; 1. 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 ; 2. "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 ; 3. "A 'Black' or a 'White' Peril?": Writing the Melancholy (Alter)Nation ; Daphne Rooke's Mittee in America and South Africa ; 4. 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 ; 5. "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 Zoe 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 ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index