03367nam 2200613Ia 450 991046232820332120200520144314.00-8166-8157-00-8166-7769-7(CKB)2670000000269574(EBL)1047457(OCoLC)818115295(SSID)ssj0000756952(PQKBManifestationID)12318738(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756952(PQKBWorkID)10753493(PQKB)11573346(MiAaPQ)EBC1047457(Au-PeEL)EBL1047457(CaPaEBR)ebr10613529(EXLCZ)99267000000026957420120209d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSouth Africa and the dream of love to come[electronic resource] queer sexuality and the struggle for freedom /Brenna M. MunroMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20121 online resource (374 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-7768-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-327) and index.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 Gordimer7. 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; ZAfter 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 citizensHomosexuality in literatureLiterature and societySouth AfricaHistory20th centurySouth African literature (English)20th centuryHistory and criticismSouth AfricaIntellectual life20th centuryElectronic books.Homosexuality in literature.Literature and societyHistorySouth African literature (English)History and criticism.820.9/968820.9968Munro Brenna M859358MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462328203321South Africa and the dream of love to come1917908UNINA