Mittee Author:Daphne Rooke First published in 1952, "Mittee" was an international bestseller. Set in late nineteenth-century Transvaal, it dramatizes the intense, ambiguous love-hate relationship between Selina, a young coloured servant girl, and her privileged white mistress, Mittee, and explores the roles forced upon the two women, fierce rivals for the attentions of th... more »e same man. Juxtaposing violence and sexuality the author crosses gender and racial boundaries in this powerful exposure of a patriarchal, puritanical and divided society. This novel comes with an outstanding analysis and afterword by the Nobel Prize Winner, J.M. Coetzee.« less