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Author Riley, Taylor

Title Queer Word- and World-Making in South Africa Dignified Sounds
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (185 p.)
Series Theorizing Ethnography Ser
Theorizing Ethnography Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Complex meanings, competing liberations -- Grounding and sounding a descriptive queer ethnographic critique -- Research methods -- Further notes on language and a sack of cows -- Chapter outline -- 1. Theorizing un/dignified sounds in the postapartheid landscape -- National and provincial (hi)stories of sexuality -- On workshopping and voices of authority -- Refused sounds, refused identifications -- Are you a man or a woman?
Identities and relatedness in a queer time and place -- 2. Performance, everyday labors, and world-making -- Performance artvocacy and precarious embodiment -- Labors of everyday existence -- Productive absences and architecting knowledge -- Queer kinship as world-making -- Resistance, queering, and normative possibilities -- 3. Acting straight and acting straight: (De)queering performativity -- Queering same-sex marriage -- Sometimes you can act -- Be straight (with me) -- Revisiting gender, sexuality, and queer relationalities -- Lesbian dignities and their straight queerness
4. Language, subversion, and dignified sounds: The making and unmaking of wor(l)ds -- Queer word-making: on studs, femmes, fish, and first curries -- Negotiating isiZulu vernacular and hidden subjectivities -- Violence, reverence, and queer natalpolitics -- On names and knowing -- 5. Sex after discourse, life after queer -- Queer lines of love -- Loud living, quiet dignities -- Querying the post-queer -- Final thoughts -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000379433
1000379434