Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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Start: Topical Index: Representations: Literary Texts: South African Literature: J.M. Coetzee: 20th Century:

Representations: Literary Texts:
DISGRACE

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Disgrace is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, published in 1999. It won the Booker Prize. The writer was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature four years after its publication.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)


K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20th Century

II. Geographical Index: African History: South African History

III. Topical Index: Cases: Fictional Offenders: David Lurie; Fictional Victims: Melanie Isaacs, Lucy Lurie | Types: General: Sexual Assault; Offenders: Gang Rape, Interracial Rape


B i b l i o g r a p h y

1. General

I. Author Index

[Info] Barnard, Lianne. »The Politics of Rape: Traces of Radical Feminism in Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee.« Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 50 (2013): 19-29.

[Info] Beiranvand, A., et al. »Black Peril VS White Peril: A Post Colonial Criticism on J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace.« Studies in Literature and Language 6 (2013): 56-60.

[Info] Boehmer, Elleke. »Not Saying Sorry, Not Speaking Pain: Gender Implications in Disgrace.« Interventions 4 (2004): 342-351.

[Info] Burger, Pamela. The Sadistic Reader: Gender and the Pleasures of Violence in the Novel. Ph.D. Thesis, City University of New York, 2015.

[Info] Cass, Jeffrey. »Rape as Debt: The Incineration of Romanticism in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace.« CEA Critic 75 (2013): 36-43.

[Info] Chou, Kimberly. “This place being South Africa”: Reading race, sex and power in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace. B.A. Thesis, University of Michigan, 2009.

[Info] Claassens, L. Juliana. »A True Disgrace? The Representation of Violence against Women in the Book of Lamentations and in J.M. Coetzee's Novel Disgrace.« Fragile Dignity: Intercontextual Conversations on Scriptures, Family, and Violence. Edited by L. Juliana Claassens et al. Atlanta 2013: 73-90.

[Info] Cornwell, Gareth. »Realism, Rape, and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.« Critique 43 (2002): 307-322.

[Info] Crews, Erin M. After Apartheid: Violence, Spatial Boundaries, and the Reconciliation Process in Three Post-Apartheid South African Novels. Master's Thesis, Emory University, 2009.

[Info] Diakhaté, Babacar. »Racial Politics and Sexual Violence in Post-Apartheid Contemporary South Africa in John Maxwell Coetzee's Disgrace (2000).« Britain International of Humanities and Social Sciences 1 (2019): 1-5.

[Info] Diehl, Lindsay A. In the Name of Love: David Lurie's Romanticized Violence in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace. M.A. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012.

[Info] Eagleton, Mary. »Ethical reading: The problem of Alice Walker’s ‘Advancing Luna – and Ida B. Wells’ and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.« Feminist Theory 2 (2001): 189-203.

[Info] Every, Kate. »“Growing scar tissue around the memory of that day”: Sites of Gendered Violence and Suffering in Contemporary South African Literature.« Journal of International Women's Studies 17 (2016): 30-42.

[Info] Gieni, Justine. Gender Dis-Ease: Representations of Masculine Hysteria in Narratives of Sexual Trauma. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Saskatchewan, 2012.

[Info] Graham, Lucy V. »Reading the Unspeakable: Rape in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.« Journal of Southern African Studies 29 (2003): 433-444.

[Info] Graham, Lucy V. »Reading the Unspeakable: Rape in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.« Body, Sexuality, and Gender: Versions and Subversions in African Literatures. Vol. 1. Edited by Flora Veit-Wild et al. Amsterdam 2005: 255-267.

[Info] Graham, LucyGraham, Lucy V. State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature. Ph.D. Thesis, Oxford University, 2010.

[Info] Graham, Lucy V. State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature. Oxford 2012.

[Info] Harrington, Ashley B. The Myth of the Criminal and Animal Subjecthood in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace. M.A. Thesis, Florida Atlantic University, 2013.

[Info] Jansen, Kathrine M.W. Rape and Torture: Depictions of Violence in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarian and Disgrace. M.A. Thesis, University of Oslo, 2013.

[Info] LeBlanc, Mary. »Hushed Resolve, Reticence, and Rape in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace.« Philosophy and Literature 41 (2017): 158-168.

[Info] Lloyd, Dylan R. Enabling Violence: The Ethics of Writing and Reading Rape in South Africa. M.A. Thesis, Rhodes University, 2020.

[Info] Lunardi, Margherita. Two post-colonial narratives of racial and sexual oppression. Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017.

[Info] Martens-Olzman, Devin. »The Ethics of Representation: Rape, Genocide, Torture.« Emergence 5 (2014).

[Info] Moffat, Nicola. »Rape and the (Animal) Other: Making Monsters in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.« Signs 43 (2018): 401-423.

[Info] Moser, Linda M. Rape and Silence in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace. Student Thesis, Halmstad Högskolan, 2012.

[Info] Muhiddin, Salman, et al. »Rape and Shame in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace.« Litera~Kultura 2 (2014).

[Info] Reck, Casey M. Laying Bare the Sins of the Father: Exploring White Fathers in Post-Apartheid Literature. Senior Thesis, Claremont McKenna College, 2010.

[Info] Segall, Kimberly W. »Pursuing Ghosts: The Traumatic Sublime in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.« Research in African Literatures 36 (2005): 40-54.

[Info] Stokes, Katherine M. Sexual Violence and the Authority to Speak: The Representation of Rape in Three Contemporary Novels. M.A. Thesis, McGill University, 2008.

[Info] Þorgeirsdóttir, Hjördís E. "A history of wrong": Post-colonial and feminist concerns in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace. B.A. verkefni, Háskóli Íslands, 2012.

[Info] van Wyk Smith, M. »Rape and the Foundation of Nations in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace.« English in Africa 41 (2014): 13-34.

II. Speaker Index

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2. Rape of Lucy Lurie

I. Author Index

[Info] Bolin, John. J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of the Novel. Cambridge 2023.

[Info] Kuo, Chia-Chen. »(不)受弱的女人: 柯慈《屈辱》中的性暴力、法律與南非新自由主義.« 中外文學 54 (2023): 233-268.

[Info] Papanna, S. »Gender, Sexual Violence, and the Reconfiguration of Power in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.« International Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities 15 (2025): 177-181.

II. Speaker Index

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3. Sexual Abuse of Melanie Isaacs by David Lurie

I. Author Index

[Info] Kuo, Chia-Chen. »(不)受弱的女人: 柯慈《屈辱》中的性暴力、法律與南非新自由主義.« 中外文學 54 (2023): 233-268.

[Info] Papanna, S. »Gender, Sexual Violence, and the Reconfiguration of Power in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.« International Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities 15 (2025): 177-181.

II. Speaker Index

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