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Queer word- and world-making in South Africa : dignified sounds / Taylor Riley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riley, Taylor, author.
- Series:
- Theorizing ethnography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex--South Africa.
- Sex.
- Queer theory--South Africa.
- Queer theory.
- Gender expression--South Africa.
- Gender expression.
- KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)--Politics and government.
- KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa).
- South Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 175 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Taylor Riley is a queer anthropologist and lecturer in gender and sexuality studies. She received her PhD from BIGSAS, University of Bayreuth (2018). Since 2016, she has taught at different institutions, including Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the University of Augsburg, the University of California, Riverside, and the University of California, Irvine.
- Contents:
- Introduction; 1. Theorizing un/dignified sounds in the postapartheid landscape; 2. Performance everyday labors, and world-making; 3. Acting straight and acting straight: (De)queering performativity; 4. Language, subversion, and dignified sounds: The making and unmaking of wor(l)ds; 5. Sex after discourse, life after queer
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 05, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Riley, Taylor. Queer word- and world-making in South Africa
- ISBN:
- 9781000379426
- 1000379426
- 9781000379433
- 1000379434
- 9780367823924
- 0367823926
- Publisher Number:
- 40030640768
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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