South Africa and the dream of love to come : queer sexuality and the struggle for freedom

"After apartheid, South Africa established a celebrated new political order that imagined the postcolonial nation as belonging equally to the descendents of Indigenous people, colonizing settlers, transported slaves, indentured laborers, and immigrants. Its constitution, adopted in 1996, was th...

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Main Author Munro, Brenna M.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012.
Subjects
South African literature (English) > 20th century > History and criticism.
Homosexuality in literature.
Literature and society > South Africa > History > 20th century.
South Africa > Intellectual life > 20th century.
South Africa
1900-1999
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780816681570
9780816677696
9780816677689
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xxxiii, 337 stran) : ilustrace

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Politics of Stigma and the Making of Democracy
  • I. Fraternity and its Anxieties: 1. Perverse Institutions, Heroic Genres: Antiapartheid Prison Writing; 2. Gay Prison Revisions: Dramas of Conversion; 3. Border Writing: Queering the Fraternity of Whiteness
  • II. Gender, Apartheid, and Imagined Spaces of Natio: 4. City Sexualities: Richard Rive's Queer Nostalgia; 5. Outside the Nation: Bessie Head's Disorientations
  • III. Writing the Rainbow Nation: 6. Queer Family Romance: J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer; 7. Queer Citizenship, Queer Exile: K. Sello Duiker and Zanele Muholi
  • Conclusion: Unrequited Utopia.

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