Queer Word- and World-Making in South Africa

Focusing on everyday experiences of sexuality in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, this book considers personal narratives and other queer artefacts to shed light on linguistic and performative strategies of resistance, referred to as queer word- and world-making.

Autorentext

Taylor Riley is a queer anthropologist and lecturer in gender and sexuality studies. She received her PhD from BIGSAS, University of Bayreuth (2018). Since 2016, she has taught at different institutions, including Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the University of Augsburg, the University of California, Riverside, and the University of California, Irvine.

Inhalt

Introduction; 1. Theorizing un/dignified sounds in the postapartheid landscape; 2. Performance everyday labors, and world-making; 3. Acting straight and acting straight: (De)queering performativity; 4. Language, subversion, and dignified sounds: The making and unmaking of wor(l)ds; 5. Sex after discourse, life after queer