Imperialism within the Margins: Queer Representation and the Politics of Culture in Southern Africa

by W. Spurlin

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349534685
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	06/14/2007
Edition description:	1st ed. 2006
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

WILLIAM J. SPURLIN is Reader in English and Director of the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence at the University of Sussex.

Table of Contents

Broadening Postcolonial Studies, Decolonising Queer Studies: Disciplinary Transitions and Social Change in the 'New' South Africa Reclaiming Insurgent Sexualities: Migrant Labor and Same-Sex Marriages on the South African Gold Mines Affective Bonds Between Women in Lesotho: Retheorizing Gender, Sexuality, and Lesbian Existence Nationalism, Homophobia, and the Politics of 'New' South African Nationhood Sexual/Cultural Hybridity in the 'New' South Africa: Emergent Sites of New Transnational Queer Politics Transforming Theory/Transforming Borders: Postcolonial Queer Enquiry and/as a Politics of Decolonisation

Editorial Reviews

'Substantially original in content and approach.' - Alan Sinfield, Sussex University

'Spurlin makes a compelling case for the need to queer postcolonial theory and decolonize queer theory, arguing cogently that only these moves can enable a fuller understanding of non-heteronormative sexualities in Africa.' - Ruth Vanita, author of Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West

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