Imperialism within the margins : queer representation and the politics of culture in ... southern africa

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 do not merely intersect with western queer identity politics and cultural representations but also resist them. Imperialism Within the Margins therefore provides an engaged and much-needed critique of the long-present heterosexist biases of postcolonial studies and the western biases of academic queer theory. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-15 Broadening Postcolonial Studies, Decolonizing Queer Studies: Disciplinary Transitions and Social Change in the “New” South Africa....Pages 16-32 Reclaiming Insurgent Sexualities: Migrant Labor and Same-Sex Marriages on the South African Gold Mines....Pages 33-55 Affective Bonds between Women in Lesotho: Retheorizing Gender, Sexuality, and Lesbian Existence....Pages 56-77 Nationalism, Homophobia, and the Politics of “New” South African Nationhood....Pages 78-102 Sexual/Cultural Hybridity in the “New” South Africa: Emergent Sites of New Transnational Queer Politics....Pages 103-131 Transforming Theory/Transforming Borders: Postcolonial Queer Inquiry and/as a Politics of Decolonization....Pages 132-145 Back Matter....Pages 146-182 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.