Lucy Valerie Graham
Biographic Data
| ID | 5072318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Valerie Graham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM L V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3617-1525 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Lewis Nkosi and the Politics of PEN
The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee – novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2003) – is widely recognized as one of the towering literary figures of the last half century. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee offers the most comprehensive available exploration of the variety, range and significance of his work. The volume covers a wealth of topics, inc…
In the beginning… was the collective
In this paper, we trace debates on the origins and morphology of the Fallist student movement in South Africa, a social movement that advocated for decolonized, free university education, and an end to the exploitation and outsourcing of poorly paid Black university workers. As we argue, a neglected area of study is Fallism’s relation to cultural production. When examined through the lens of cultural production, it becomes apparent that artivist …
Intercepting Disgrace
This review article examines two palimpsest rewritings of J. M.Coetzee’s canonical but controversial novel, Disgrace (1999). Both rewritings are by women: Lacuna, a novel published in 2019, is by a white South African woman, Fiona Snyckers, and “Letter to John Coetzee” takes the form of a short story by Michelle Cahill, a woman of color living in Australia, published in Cahill’s collection Letter to Pessoa (2016). The article uses Cahill’s coinag…
On misogyny and the women who say “no”
This essay explores misogyny in the words and behavior of Jacob Zuma and Donald Trump, who became presidents of South Africa and the United States of America, respectively, in the twenty first century. The argument moves from examining the misogyny of charismatic male leaders, to discussing Trump’s apparent narcissism, and the limits of comparing Trump with Zuma, to a focus on both Trump and Zuma as populist presidents. While the essay is compara…
Utterly Divided”? The Feminist Perspectives of Lauretta Ngcobo and Olive Schreiner
This article compares the feminist views of Olive Schreiner with those of Lauretta Ngcobo, raising questions about race, gender, intersectionality, decolonisation and the curriculum in South Africa
Representing Marikana
This essay discusses four representations of the massacre of striking mineworkers that took place on 16 August 2012 at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa: Aryan Kaganof’s unconventional documentary Night is Coming: A Threnody for the Victims of Marikana (2014); Rehad Desai’s Emmy award-winning documentary Miners Shot Down (2014); a performance of the massacre by the women of Marikana as recorded in Aliki Saragas’s documentary Mama Marikan…
South Africa After Twenty Years of Democracy
The essays and discussion published here were originally part of a colloquium held at New York University (NYU) in November 2014, and sponsored by the Postcolonial Studies Colloquium at NYU. Set up
Then You Are a Man, My Son”
This essay examines a hypothetical supplement to Rudyard Kipling's famous poem “If—” scripted by the judge during the Jacob Zuma rape trial in 2006. It places this into conversation with State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature (2012) and argues for the importance of interrogating specters of colonial patriarchy in South Africa's contemporary post–“rainbow nation” epoch. During the trial, Zuma invoked in his defense a certain mas…
Roundtable Discussion
Bucks without Hair” and “Bullet Points”
This article aims to open academic debate about Justin Cartwright’s fiction set in England by examining the first of Cartwright’s major novels about England, namely In Every Face I Meet (1995). Although South African-born Cartwright has lived in London for more than 40 years, the majority of his novels, about England and Englishness, have received little previous academic attention. We claim that In Every Face I Meet offers social commentary in t…
Danger and DesireRape and Seduction in the Colonial Imagination
Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Vir iemand wat altyd die gewig van 'n boek takseer terwyl jy begin blaai en nie die verleiding kan weerstaan om aan die binnekant te ruik nie, is Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa 'n heerlike boek. Nie dat dit spesifiek lekkerder as ander moderne boeke ruik nie - wel kraakhelder en fris - maar omdat die materialiteit, die boek as ding, so sterk op die voorgrond staan in die 21 artikels waaruit dit bestaan. Die plesier begin al danksy …
State of PerilRace and Rape in South African Literature
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 Woman Wasn't White!: Race and Rape in Olive Schreiner's Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland Inexpiable Outrage Remains: Combatants, Chivalry and the South African War 2. a Man: Black Peril, Print Culture and Political Voice in the Making of the Union Wholly Bestial an…
The “Great Coloured Question” and the Cosmopolitan
In this article we set out to interrogate Wicomb's David's Story as a political and historical intervention and to examine its treatment of the “great coloured question” and the relationship between armed liberation struggle and democracy. The novel has the potential to be read as a liberal critique of the ANC's treatment of coloured people and of women in exile and in the transition to democracy, but we argue that one can only arrive at such a r…
District 9
Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham. Co-produced by Philippa Boyens. Executive Producers Bill Block, Elliot
Consequential Changes”
Save us all”
This essay aims to discuss post-apartheid reports about the myth of “the virgin cure” (the idea that sex with a virgin cures AIDS) alongside representations of black men and babies in Lara Foot Newton's play Tshepang: the third testament, and the film Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood. In the context of reports about an epidemic of “baby rape” in South Africa – which have been distributed to the rest of the world in a global media blitz expressing r…
Reading the Unspeakable
Reading the Unspeakable
Of Daphne Rooke's Mittee , J. M. Coetzee writes: 'to her credit, Rooke does not indulge in the ne plus ultra of colonial horror fantasies, the rape of a white woman' . Since he is evidently aware of the volatile nature of this subject, what compels Coetzee to portray the rape of a white woman by three black men in Disgrace? One may well ask whether ethical scriptings of interracial rape are possible in a context where representations of sexual vi…
Yes, I am giving him up’
Coetzee's recent fiction presents a vision of the world in the absence of grace, where the only possibility for ethical action may be through non-violent `felt contact' with fellow creatures
District 9
Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham. Co-produced by Philippa Boyens. Executive Producers Bill Block, Elliot
Yes, I am giving him up’
Coetzee's recent fiction presents a vision of the world in the absence of grace, where the only possibility for ethical action may be through non-violent `felt contact' with fellow creatures
Reading the Unspeakable
Of Daphne Rooke's Mittee , J. M. Coetzee writes: 'to her credit, Rooke does not indulge in the ne plus ultra of colonial horror fantasies, the rape of a white woman' . Since he is evidently aware of the volatile nature of this subject, what compels Coetzee to portray the rape of a white woman by three black men in Disgrace? One may well ask whether ethical scriptings of interracial rape are possible in a context where representations of sexual vi…
Utterly Divided”? The Feminist Perspectives of Lauretta Ngcobo and Olive Schreiner
This article compares the feminist views of Olive Schreiner with those of Lauretta Ngcobo, raising questions about race, gender, intersectionality, decolonisation and the curriculum in South Africa
On misogyny and the women who say “no”
This essay explores misogyny in the words and behavior of Jacob Zuma and Donald Trump, who became presidents of South Africa and the United States of America, respectively, in the twenty first century. The argument moves from examining the misogyny of charismatic male leaders, to discussing Trump’s apparent narcissism, and the limits of comparing Trump with Zuma, to a focus on both Trump and Zuma as populist presidents. While the essay is compara…
Save us all”
This essay aims to discuss post-apartheid reports about the myth of “the virgin cure” (the idea that sex with a virgin cures AIDS) alongside representations of black men and babies in Lara Foot Newton's play Tshepang: the third testament, and the film Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood. In the context of reports about an epidemic of “baby rape” in South Africa – which have been distributed to the rest of the world in a global media blitz expressing r…
Yes, I am giving him up’
Coetzee's recent fiction presents a vision of the world in the absence of grace, where the only possibility for ethical action may be through non-violent `felt contact' with fellow creatures
Reading the Unspeakable
Of Daphne Rooke's Mittee , J. M. Coetzee writes: 'to her credit, Rooke does not indulge in the ne plus ultra of colonial horror fantasies, the rape of a white woman' . Since he is evidently aware of the volatile nature of this subject, what compels Coetzee to portray the rape of a white woman by three black men in Disgrace? One may well ask whether ethical scriptings of interracial rape are possible in a context where representations of sexual vi…
Reading the Unspeakable
Save us all”
This essay aims to discuss post-apartheid reports about the myth of “the virgin cure” (the idea that sex with a virgin cures AIDS) alongside representations of black men and babies in Lara Foot Newton's play Tshepang: the third testament, and the film Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood. In the context of reports about an epidemic of “baby rape” in South Africa – which have been distributed to the rest of the world in a global media blitz expressing r…
Consequential Changes”
District 9
Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham. Co-produced by Philippa Boyens. Executive Producers Bill Block, Elliot
The “Great Coloured Question” and the Cosmopolitan
In this article we set out to interrogate Wicomb's David's Story as a political and historical intervention and to examine its treatment of the “great coloured question” and the relationship between armed liberation struggle and democracy. The novel has the potential to be read as a liberal critique of the ANC's treatment of coloured people and of women in exile and in the transition to democracy, but we argue that one can only arrive at such a r…
Danger and DesireRape and Seduction in the Colonial Imagination
Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Vir iemand wat altyd die gewig van 'n boek takseer terwyl jy begin blaai en nie die verleiding kan weerstaan om aan die binnekant te ruik nie, is Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa 'n heerlike boek. Nie dat dit spesifiek lekkerder as ander moderne boeke ruik nie - wel kraakhelder en fris - maar omdat die materialiteit, die boek as ding, so sterk op die voorgrond staan in die 21 artikels waaruit dit bestaan. Die plesier begin al danksy …
State of PerilRace and Rape in South African Literature
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 Woman Wasn't White!: Race and Rape in Olive Schreiner's Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland Inexpiable Outrage Remains: Combatants, Chivalry and the South African War 2. a Man: Black Peril, Print Culture and Political Voice in the Making of the Union Wholly Bestial an…
Bucks without Hair” and “Bullet Points”
This article aims to open academic debate about Justin Cartwright’s fiction set in England by examining the first of Cartwright’s major novels about England, namely In Every Face I Meet (1995). Although South African-born Cartwright has lived in London for more than 40 years, the majority of his novels, about England and Englishness, have received little previous academic attention. We claim that In Every Face I Meet offers social commentary in t…
Representing Marikana
This essay discusses four representations of the massacre of striking mineworkers that took place on 16 August 2012 at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa: Aryan Kaganof’s unconventional documentary Night is Coming: A Threnody for the Victims of Marikana (2014); Rehad Desai’s Emmy award-winning documentary Miners Shot Down (2014); a performance of the massacre by the women of Marikana as recorded in Aliki Saragas’s documentary Mama Marikan…
South Africa After Twenty Years of Democracy
The essays and discussion published here were originally part of a colloquium held at New York University (NYU) in November 2014, and sponsored by the Postcolonial Studies Colloquium at NYU. Set up
Then You Are a Man, My Son”
This essay examines a hypothetical supplement to Rudyard Kipling's famous poem “If—” scripted by the judge during the Jacob Zuma rape trial in 2006. It places this into conversation with State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature (2012) and argues for the importance of interrogating specters of colonial patriarchy in South Africa's contemporary post–“rainbow nation” epoch. During the trial, Zuma invoked in his defense a certain mas…
Roundtable Discussion
Utterly Divided”? The Feminist Perspectives of Lauretta Ngcobo and Olive Schreiner
This article compares the feminist views of Olive Schreiner with those of Lauretta Ngcobo, raising questions about race, gender, intersectionality, decolonisation and the curriculum in South Africa
Intercepting Disgrace
This review article examines two palimpsest rewritings of J. M.Coetzee’s canonical but controversial novel, Disgrace (1999). Both rewritings are by women: Lacuna, a novel published in 2019, is by a white South African woman, Fiona Snyckers, and “Letter to John Coetzee” takes the form of a short story by Michelle Cahill, a woman of color living in Australia, published in Cahill’s collection Letter to Pessoa (2016). The article uses Cahill’s coinag…
On misogyny and the women who say “no”
This essay explores misogyny in the words and behavior of Jacob Zuma and Donald Trump, who became presidents of South Africa and the United States of America, respectively, in the twenty first century. The argument moves from examining the misogyny of charismatic male leaders, to discussing Trump’s apparent narcissism, and the limits of comparing Trump with Zuma, to a focus on both Trump and Zuma as populist presidents. While the essay is compara…
In the beginning… was the collective
In this paper, we trace debates on the origins and morphology of the Fallist student movement in South Africa, a social movement that advocated for decolonized, free university education, and an end to the exploitation and outsourcing of poorly paid Black university workers. As we argue, a neglected area of study is Fallism’s relation to cultural production. When examined through the lens of cultural production, it becomes apparent that artivist …
The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee – novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2003) – is widely recognized as one of the towering literary figures of the last half century. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee offers the most comprehensive available exploration of the variety, range and significance of his work. The volume covers a wealth of topics, inc…
Lewis Nkosi and the Politics of PEN
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