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Autore |
Munro Brenna M |
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Titolo |
South Africa and the dream of love to come [[electronic resource] ] : queer sexuality and the struggle for freedom / / Brenna M. Munro |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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0-8166-8157-0 |
0-8166-7769-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (374 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Homosexuality in literature |
Literature and society - South Africa - History - 20th century |
South African literature (English) - 20th century - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
South Africa Intellectual life 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-327) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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