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Gukira: Yet Another Rape Poem

Forthese rape poems, whatever their formal merits, suggest how women understand their structural position within gendered norms. The rapepoem captures the experience of space and time, in which routes taken during the day may not be traversed at night.

And it captures whispered stories told to close friends, often accompanied by binding promises: don’t tell anyone, please. Even now, I do not betray these secrets.