The Rape of Sita
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Book Overview
Winner of the Best Book for the African category of the 1994 Commonwealth Writers Prize, this novel was banned by the Mauritius Government when it was first published. Sita struggles to remember her own history and her own rape, which comes to symbolize all rapes, all violations, all colonizations.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0435909584
ISBN13:9780435909581
Release Date:January 1995
Publisher:Heinemann Educational Books
Length:197 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Thought provoking
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
The Rape of Sita is a grabbing read. Lindsey Collen uses various modes of story telling and writing styles to sculpt the characters and the plot. Having spent three years in West Africa, I admire the voice of the story-teller as the narrator, and his manner of telling the story. It gives a story of independence and emotion a unique point of view.
Powerful and Provocative Novel
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
The Rape of Sita tells the story a rape through a man, a story-teller in the story. Heavily political, this book deals with issue of rape and the atmosphere of fear in every society. (Is it right for a woman to stay over at a male acquaintance's house alone? If, because of that, a woman is raped, whose fault is it? Why is it that we are so ashamed to talk about being raped?) The book will tell you things you probably already know, but succeeds brilliantly in jolting it into the conscious mind. A urgent call for action and change in attitude, it challages the belief that rape is an act usually directed at women. She deconstructs rape to become only an idea: a notion of the strong conquering the weak; it takes place even before the penetration. Its lyrical and tight prose provides good respite from its heavy content, and really, by its own merit, worth a read. However, the true beauty of its book lies in its courage to challenge, and its ability to bring about change.
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