Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 564 g
Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 564 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-979637-3
Verlag: ACADEMIC
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.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Politische Unterdrückung & Verfolgung
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
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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 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
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
