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White bodies and colonial history : sexual violence in Kate Grenville’s Lilian’s Story and Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples Thomas, Kylie
Abstract
In this thesis I explore the significance of sexual violence in colonial Australia and apartheid South Africa through analyses of Kate Grenville's Lilian's 5'rory(1985)and Mark Behr's The Smell ofApples(\995). The explicit focus of the thesis is on the sexual violence enacted by white men on white children and the relation between this form of violence and the practices of white racism. I argue that both texts confront instances of sexual violence that have been made unspeakable in colonial history. In the concluding chapter of the thesis I attempt to formulate how it might be possible to represent the violence of the past in an ethical way.
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White bodies and colonial history : sexual violence in Kate Grenville’s Lilian’s Story and Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples
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University of British Columbia
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1999
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In this thesis I explore the significance of sexual violence in colonial Australia and apartheid
South Africa through analyses of Kate Grenville's Lilian's 5'rory(1985)and Mark Behr's The
Smell ofApples(\995). The explicit focus of the thesis is on the sexual violence enacted by
white men on white children and the relation between this form of violence and the practices
of white racism. I argue that both texts confront instances of sexual violence that have been
made unspeakable in colonial history. In the concluding chapter of the thesis I attempt to
formulate how it might be possible to represent the violence of the past in an ethical way.
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eng
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2009-06-29
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
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10.14288/1.0058296
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University of British Columbia
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1999-11
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Graduate
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.