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Munro, Brenna Moremi.

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Queer constitutions: Postcolonial sexualities in modern South African writing.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Queer constitutions: Postcolonial sexualities in modern South African writing./
Author:	Munro, Brenna Moremi.
Description:	248 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Rita Felski.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-10A.
Subject:	Literature, African. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3149207
ISBN:	9780496091355

Queer constitutions: Postcolonial sexualities in modern South African writing.
Munro, Brenna Moremi.

Queer constitutions: Postcolonial sexualities in modern South African writing. - 248 p.

Adviser: Rita Felski.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 2005.

My dissertation traces changing constructions of homosexuality in South African literature, from the era of apartheid through the years of transition to democracy. I argue that homosexuality has served as a crucial metaphor for the re-imagining of race and nation, and that an attention to narratives of sexuality opens up an alternative South African literary history. Reading discourses of sexuality across this history, and examining the inter-play between literary form, larger cultural narratives, and social change gives us a concrete way of examining the much debated relationship between the national and the global. My project engages with the growing critical field of the "queer postcolonial," and its central questions: is gay identity a Western export, are postcolonial identities emerging that will re-define what we mean by queer, and how should we conduct these multiple cultural translations?

ISBN: 9780496091355Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022872
Literature, African.

Queer constitutions: Postcolonial sexualities in modern South African writing.
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520 $a My dissertation traces changing constructions of homosexuality in South African literature, from the era of apartheid through the years of transition to democracy. I argue that homosexuality has served as a crucial metaphor for the re-imagining of race and nation, and that an attention to narratives of sexuality opens up an alternative South African literary history. Reading discourses of sexuality across this history, and examining the inter-play between literary form, larger cultural narratives, and social change gives us a concrete way of examining the much debated relationship between the national and the global. My project engages with the growing critical field of the "queer postcolonial," and its central questions: is gay identity a Western export, are postcolonial identities emerging that will re-define what we mean by queer, and how should we conduct these multiple cultural translations?
520 $a Each of my chapters examines a genre that offers different conventions for writing identity and different forms through which to imagine the shape of the nation: prison writing, texts that combine fiction and autobiography, and the post-apartheid coming-out narrative. The texts I examine move between a male homosexuality that stands for the perversity of white rule, a post-apartheid gay identity that is emblematic of the new democratic nation and its "rainbow" future, and a "queer postcolonial" model of sexualities in the making, in search of languages for self and nation that can evade the dominant discourses of identity and belonging.
520 $a The writers I discuss include Moses Dlamini, D. M. Zwelonke, and Dennis Brutes, whose celebrations of the heroic male collectivity of political prisoners are constructed through a disavowal of homosexuality; Richard Rive, who writes the multiracial city of the 1950s as the site of queer improvised subjectivities, and Bessie Head, who presents the rural village as a parallel but marginalized site of queer self-fashioning for women; J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, whose transition era novels examine how queer sexuality can, and cannot, re-make whiteness, through inter-generational family plots; and emerging Sowetan-born novelist K. Sello Duiker's queer rendition of the rainbow nation in his epic coming-out novel.
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