Deaf, Gay, HIV Positive, and Proud

Narrating an Alternative Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2140403
AutoresChristophe Broqua (0000-0003-1574-9033, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen43
Número1
Páginas83-104
Fecha de publicación2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCanadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0008-3968 • E-ISSN: 1923-3051
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00083968.2010.9707584
OpenAlexW1788755489
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8

This article explores the ways in which John Meletse, a young black man who is an openly gay Deaf activist living with HIV, prioritizes some identities over others when telling us about his life. In analyzing this narrative of self, this article explores the ways in which sexual, gender, and "disabled" identities intersect in alternative constructions of masculinity. A close reading of parts of John’s biographic narrative allows the article to show rather than tell how his coming to terms with sexual identity is a process. John‘s videotaped life story, translated from South African Sign Language, was drawn from original interviews that formed part of the results of a SANPAD project on Deaf Culture in South Africa and from subsequent follow-up interviews

Art · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Identity (music) · Sociology · Gender Studies · Legal Issues in South Africa · Medicine · South African History and Culture · Virology