STATE OF PERIL, race and rape in South African literature

253 pp., hardback. d.w., New York, 2012

An examination of rape narratives in South African literature, from the colonial era to the present. Includes readings of work by Olive Schriener, Sol Plaatje, Sarah Gertrude Millin, Njabulo Ndebele, J.M.Coetzee, Zoë Wicomb, Daphne Rooke, Arthur Maimane, Farida Karodia, Lauretta Ngcobo, and Achmat Dangor.

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