�Then You Are a Man, My Son�: Kipling and the Zuma rape trial

dc.contributor.authorGraham, Lucy Valerie
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-08T10:13:16Z
dc.date.available2018-06-08T10:13:16Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractIt is now a decade since Jacob Zuma, current president of South Africa, stood trial for rape, and while much writing has been generated about this trial, Judge Willem J. van der Merwe�s hypothetical supplement to Kipling�s famous poem �If�,� which appears in his verdict as a means of bringing the trial to a close, has been passed over by other commentators. The extent to which the trial divided South African society on issues of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity and showed the riven politics of the ruling party suggested that South Africa was not the harmonious �rainbow nation� that had seemed so attainable in the Mandela years. As Pumla Gqola notes in her book Rape: A South African Nightmare, the trial �was a difficult moment in South Africa�s posttransition period and one that questioned many assumptions about the place of power, gender and sexuality in our society.�en_US
dc.description.accreditationIBSS
dc.identifier.citationGraham, L. (2016). �Then You Are a Man, My Son�: Kipling and the Zuma rape trial. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 36(2): 263 � 274.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1089-201X
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3603331
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/3794
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherDuke University Pressen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3603331
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectJacob Zumaen_US
dc.subjectKiplingen_US
dc.subjectRape trialen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.title�Then You Are a Man, My Son�: Kipling and the Zuma rape trialen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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