num_pages: 232
description: Banned within hours of publication in her native Mauritius for enraging fundamentalists, Lindsey Collen's pathbreaking The Rape of Sita went on to win the prestigious Commonwealth Prize for Best Novel in Africa. A powerful and stylistically innovative work, Collen's novel exemplifies the brilliant creative possibilities of postcolonial literature. Deftly blending oral and literary traditions, this masterpiece reveals the history, repression and resistance of an entire people through the story of one woman, and introduces to American readers a major literary voice.
language: English
title: The Rape of Sita
titlecomplete: The Rape of Sita
genres: Fiction, Mauritius, Womens, Africa, Feminism, Novels
ratings_count: 91
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in Africa
publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY