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South Africa and the dream of love to come : queer sexuality and the struggle for freedom
After apartheid, South Africa established a celebrated new political 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 full citizens. Brenna M. Munro examines the stories that were told about sexuality, 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, lesbian, or bisexual person appeared as a stock character in the pageant of nationhood during the transition to democracy. In the process, she offers an alternative cultural history of South Africa. Munro asserts that the inclusion of gay people made South Africans feel \"modern\"-at least for a while. Being gay or being lesbian was reimagined in the 1990s as distinctly South African, but the \"newness\" that made these sexualities apt symbols for a transformed nation can also be understood as foreign and un-African. Indeed, a Western-style gay identity is often interpreted through the formula \"gay equals modernity equals capitalism.\" As South Africa's reentrance into the global economy has failed to bring prosperity 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 refusing to become scapegoats for the perceived failures of liberation and liberalism.
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J. M. Coetzee in Context and Theory
Nobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.M.Coetzee is perhaps the world's leading living novelist writing in English.Including an international roster of world leading critics and novelists, and drawing on new research, this innovative book analyses the whole range of Coetzee's work, from his most recent novels.
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Accelerating the education sector response to HIV : five years of experience from Sub-Saharan Africa
Accelerating education sector responses to HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. This report examines the education sector's role in preventing HIV/AIDS and supporting affected communities. It's for educators, policymakers, and development professionals seeking effective strategies. Discover five years of experience in Sub-Saharan Africa, revealing successful approaches to HIV/AIDS prevention in schools. Learn how to implement policies, train teachers, and engage communities. Understand how coordinated efforts and resource allocation can create sustainable education programs, offering hope and empowerment to future generations. This is a crucial resource for building a stronger, healthier future.
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The Classics and South African Identities
The teaching and research of the Classics in South Africa are deeply rooted in the racial, political and educational inequalities which have characterised its turbulent history. In this original study, Michael Lambert opens three windows on to this history, using the creation of identities as his theoretical lens. The foundation of the Classical Association of South Africa in 1956 and the cultural reinforcement of Afrikaner nationalist identity; the deployment of British colonial identity in public discourses about the role of the Classics in apartheid South Africa at an English-speaking university; and the exploration of black African identities in response to the teaching of the Classics at missionary institutions, where 'vocational training' was locked in combat with a classical education, regarded by an educated black elite as the means for upward social mobility in a highly-stratified colonial society. The book will be of interest to students of many subjects, including Classics, Cultural Studies, African Studies and History of Education.
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Democracy at Home in South Africa
Focusing on aesthetic figuration diverse home spaces, modes of domestic life, and family histories, this book argues that depicting democracy as it unfolds literally at home presents a compelling portrait of the intimate and everyday aspects of change that can be overlooked by a focus on structural concerns in South Africa.
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