Queering Colonial Natal - Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa

Summary

How were indigenous social practices deemed queer and aberrant by colonial forces? In Queering Colonial Natal, T.J. Tallie travels to colonial Natalestablished by the British in 1843, today South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal provinceto show how settler regimes "queered" indigenous practices. Defining them as threats to the normative order they soug

Product details

• Authors: T. J. Tallie
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781517905170
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-0517-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Soziale Diskriminierung und Gleichbehandlung, Südafrika, Afrikanische Geschichte, Kolonialismus und Imperialismus, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Politik und Staat