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Book SynopsisFocuses on the queer embodiments that both reveal and animate the gaps between South Africa's self-image and its lived realities. The book argues that performance has become a key location where contradictions inherent to South Africa's post-apartheid identity are negotiated.
Trade Review“The depth of the ethnographic research, the sensitive, nuanced reading of multiple performance texts, and the interdisciplinary acumen make this an excellent contribution to the field of theatre and performance studies as well as the burgeoning field of queer African studies. Individual chapters, which move among and between the genres of performance art, self-performance, photography, dance, and television, culminate in a remarkable ‘prism’ of what it means to be a queer South African in the post-apartheid moment.”
—Laura Edmondson, Dartmouth College
