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Somewhere in the double rainbow : representations of bisexuality in post-apartheid novels
- Title
- Somewhere in the double rainbow : representations of bisexuality in post-apartheid novels / Cheryl Stobie.
- Author
- Stobie, Cheryl
- Publication
- Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR9362.2 .S76 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 307 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Bisexuality has been explored in increasing numbers of South African novels published since the transition to democracy in 1994. In a society previously dominated by an either/or mindset, what does this development signify? The innovative Somewhere in the Double Rainbow answers this question by examining a number of these novels in depth, looking at South African literature, the nation and citizenship in a new light."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-297) and index.
- Contents
- Defining the double rainbow -- The history of bisexuality in the West -- Variant sexualities in Africa and South Africa -- 'Biopia' in biography : a cultural history of bisexuality -- Mother, missus, mate : bisexuality in Tatamkhulu Afrika's Mr Chameleon and Bitter Eden -- Fissures in apartheid's 'Eden' : representations of bisexuality in Cracks by Sheila Kohler and The smell of apples by Mark Behr -- 'Who really can follow these bisexual variations' : Nadine Gordimer's The house gun -- Bisexuality and the queer celebratory : K. Sello Duiker's The quiet violence of dreams, Ashraf Jamal's Love themes for the wilderness and Shamim Sarif's The world unseen -- Writing in the interzone : a queer postcolonial reading of Barbara Adair's In Tangier we killed the blue parrot -- Bisexuality and a crisis of representation in the South African imaginary.
- ISBN
- 9781869141301
- 186914130X
- LCCN
- 2007332734
- 99818765257
- OCLC
- ocn170955450
- 170955450
- SCSB-1453012
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library