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South Africa and the dream of love to come : (Record no. 618076)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2012-002773
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780816677689 (hardback)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780816677696 (pb)
039 ## - LEVEL OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL AND CODING DETAIL [OBSOLETE]
Level of rules in bibliographic description 201602081937
Level of effort used to assign classification 991
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Original cataloging agency DLC
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082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 820.9/968
Edition information 23
084 ## - OTHER CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number LIT004010
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092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number 820.9968 MUN
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Munro, Brenna M.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title South Africa and the dream of love to come :
Remainder of title queer sexuality and the struggle for freedom /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Brenna M. Munro.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Minneapolis :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. University of Minnesota Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c2012.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxxiii, 337 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 23 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Machine generated contents note: ContentsIntroduction: The Politics of Stigma and the Making of Democracy -- I. Fraternity and its Anxieti es -- 1. Perverse Institutions, Heroic Genres: Anti-Apartheid Prison Wr iting -- 2. Gay Prison Revisions: Dramas of Conversion -- 3. Border Wri ting: Queering the Fraternity of Whiteness -- II. Gender, Apartheid, an d Imagined Spaces of Nation -- 4. City Sexualities: Richard Rive's Quee r Nostalgia -- 5. Outside the Nation: Bessie Head's Disorientations -- III. Writing the Rainbow Nation -- 6. Queer Family Romance: J.M. Coetze e and Nadine Gordimer -- 7. Queer Citizenship, Queer Exile: K. Sello Du iker and Zanele Muholi -- Conclusion: Unrequited UtopiaAcknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. " After apartheid, South Africa established a celebrated new politic al 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 ful l citizens. Brenna M. Munro examines the stories that were told about s exuality, race, and nation throughout the struggle against apartheid in order to uncover how these narratives ultimately enabled gay people to become imaginable as fellow citizens. She also traces how the gay, les bian, or bisexual person appeared as a stock character in the pageant o f nationhood during the transition to democracy. In the process, she of fers an alternative cultural history of South Africa.Munro asserts that the inclusion of gay people made South Africans feel "modern"--at leas t for a while. Being gay or being lesbian was reimagined in the 1990s a s distinctly South African, but the "newness" that made these sexualiti es apt symbols for a transformed nation can also be understood as forei gn and un-African. Indeed, a Western-style gay identity is often interp reted through the formula "gay equals modernity equals capitalism." As South Africa's reentrance into the global economy has failed to bring p rosperity to the majority of its citizens, homophobic violence has been on the rise.Employing a wide array of texts--including prison memoirs, poetry, plays, television shows, photography, political speeches, and the postapartheid writings of Nobel Laureates Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee--Munro reports on how contemporary queer activists and artists are declining to remain ambassadors for the "rainbow nation" and refus ing to become scapegoats for the perceived failures of liberation and l iberalism. "--
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650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element South African literature (English)
Chronological subdivision 20th century
General subdivision History and cr iticism.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Homosexuality in literature.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Literature and society
Geographic subdivision South Africa
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element LITERARY CRITICISM / African.
Source of heading or term bisacsh
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element LITERARY CRITICISM / Gay & Lesbian.
Source of heading or term bisacsh
651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name South Africa
General subdivision Intellectual life
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
852 ## - LOCATION
Former shelving location MISR
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type Books - Open Access
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Total checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     MISR Library - Open Shelves MISR Library - Open Shelves 14/06/2025   820.9968 MUN 001251011 14/06/2025 14/06/2025 Books - Open Access