These queer gardens: a South African story
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Date
2014
Authors
Barnard-Naudé, Jaco
De Vos, Pierre
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Publisher
University of the Free State
Abstract
Two white male Afrikaans gay academics decide to respond to a call for papers to be
presented at a conference with the theme “Gardens of justice” in Stockholm, Sweden
in 2012. In the course of their attempt to co-author an academic paper on the history
of the struggle for sexual minority freedom in South Africa, they are confronted by
their own histories, contradictions, literary influences and context - confrontations
that ultimately mirror the instability of subjectivity and the valences of a critically
queer positionality in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Keywords
Sexual minorities, Post-apartheid South Africa, Gay men
Citation
Barnard-Naude, J., & De Vos, P. (2014). These queer gardens: a South African story. Acta Academica: Law as a humanities discipline: transformative potential and political limits, 46(3), 134-150.