Imperialism within the Margins

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • William J. Spurlin

   Pages 1-15

3. Broadening Postcolonial Studies, Decolonizing Queer Studies: Disciplinary Transitions and Social Change in the “New” South Africa

   • William J. Spurlin

   Pages 16-32

4. Reclaiming Insurgent Sexualities: Migrant Labor and Same-Sex Marriages on the South African Gold Mines

   • William J. Spurlin

   Pages 33-55

5. Affective Bonds between Women in Lesotho: Retheorizing Gender, Sexuality, and Lesbian Existence

   • William J. Spurlin

   Pages 56-77

6. Nationalism, Homophobia, and the Politics of “New” South African Nationhood

   • William J. Spurlin

   Pages 78-102

7. Sexual/Cultural Hybridity in the “New” South Africa: Emergent Sites of New Transnational Queer Politics

   • William J. Spurlin

   Pages 103-131

8. Transforming Theory/Transforming Borders: Postcolonial Queer Inquiry and/as a Politics of Decolonization

   • William J. Spurlin

   Pages 132-145

9. Back Matter

   Pages 146-182

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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.

• Africa
• colonial studies
• culture
• decolonisation
• decolonization
• gender
• imperialism
• Nation
• nationalism
• politics
• Queer Studies
• social change
• Southern Africa
• Transnational
• women

'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

• London, UK

  William J. Spurlin

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

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