South Africa and the dream of love to come : queer sexuality and the struggle for freedom / Brenna M. Munro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munro, Brenna M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality in literature.

Literature and society--South Africa--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

South African literature (English)--20th century--History and criticism.

South African literature (English).

South Africa--Intellectual life--20th century.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiii, 337 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Summary:

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 the first in the world to include gays and lesbians as full citizens. Brenna M. Munro examines the stories that were told about sexuality, race, and nation throughout the struggle against apartheid in order to uncover how these narratives ultimately enabled gay people to become imaginable as fellow citizens

Contents:

Cover; 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 Nation; 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 MuholiConclusion: Unrequited Utopia; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-327) and index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-327) and index.

ISBN:

0816681570

0816677697

OCLC:

818115295