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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812124803321

Autore

Spurlin William J. <1954->

Titolo

Imperialism within the margins : queer representation and the politics of culture in southern Africa / / William J. Spurlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

ISBN

1-281-36586-6

9786611365868

1-4039-8366-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 182 p.)

Disciplina

306.76/6096809049

Soggetti

Homosexuality - Africa, Southern

Gays - Africa, Southern - Political activity

Same-sex marriage - Africa, Southern

Gays in popular culture - Africa, Southern

Africa, Southern Social life and customs

Africa, Southern Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-173) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Broadening Postcolonial Studies, Decolonizing Queer Studies: Disciplinary Transitions and Social Change in the "New" South Africa -- 2 Reclaiming Insurgent Sexualities: Migrant Labor and Same-Sex Marriages on the South African Gold Mines -- 3 Affective Bonds between Women in Lesotho: Retheorizing Gender, Sexuality, and Lesbian Existence -- 4 Nationalism, Homophobia, and the Politics of "New" South African Nationhood -- 5 Sexual/Cultural Hybridity in the "New" South Africa: Emergent Sites of New Transnational Queer Politics -- 6 Transforming Theory/Transforming Borders: Postcolonial Queer Inquiry and/as a Politics of Decolonization -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Through focusing on the sexual politics that have emerged out of post-apartheid South Africa, Spurlin investigates textual and cultural representations of same-sex desire outside of the Euroamerican axes



of queer culture and politics, and considers the ways in which queer cultural productions in southern Africa both intersect with and resist these.