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South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come - Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom (Paperback)
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South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come - Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom (Paperback)
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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. She also traces how the gay,
lesbian, or bisexual person appeared as a stock character in the
pageant of nationhood during the transition to democracy. In the
process, she offers an alternative cultural history of South
Africa. Munro asserts that the inclusion of gay people made South
Africans feel OC modernOCOOCoat least for a while. Being gay or
being lesbian was reimagined in the 1990s as distinctly South
African, but the OC newnessOCO that made these sexualities apt
symbols for a transformed nation can also be understood as foreign
and un-African. Indeed, a Western-style gay identity is often
interpreted through the formula OC gay equals modernity equals
capitalism.OCO As South AfricaOCOs reentrance into the global
economy has failed to bring prosperity to the majority of its
citizens, homophobic violence has been on the rise. Employing a
wide array of textsOCoincluding prison memoirs, poetry, plays,
television shows, photography, political speeches, and the
postapartheid writings of Nobel Laureates Nadine Gordimer and J. M.
CoetzeeOCoMunro reports on how contemporary queer activists and
artists are declining to remain ambassadors for the OC rainbow
nationOCO and refusing to become scapegoats for the perceived
failures of liberation and liberalism.
General
Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2012 |
First published: |
August 2012 |
Authors: |
Brenna M Munro
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
337 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8166-7769-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8166-7769-7 |
Barcode: |
9780816677696 |
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