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Somewhere in the double rainbow : representations of bisexuality in post-apartheid novels / Cheryl Stobie.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007Description: xvi, 307 p. 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781869141301
  • 186914130X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.933538 22
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-297) and index.

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.