Brenna Munro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3614326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brenna Munro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brenna |
| FAMILY NAME | Munro |
| SIGNATURE | MUNRO B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
African Literature in Transition
This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. It explores the historical spaces and maps that African literature brings to the surface and re-imagines in novel ways. The stories that matter about what happened in the past together constitute a collective memory that African writers and readers draw upon to locate themselves within the world. The book examines the mental maps…
Queer Pasts
The past is freighted for queer Africans. Because of the ubiquitous accusation of being “un-African,” envisioning historical existence for same-gender-loving and gender-diverse Africans offers the promise of establishing cultural authenticity in the present. Queer pasts, however, tend to be elusive, complex, and contested – as recent novels explore. Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea gives readers glimpses of a queer relationship from the past throug…
Incredible, libidinal, strange
This article gives an account of Tejumola Olaniyan's under-appreciated role in supporting the emergence of the field of queer African literary studies, and provides a provisional historiography and bibliography of that field. The article then reads Olaniyan's work, in particular Arrest The Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics, through a queer lens. Olaniyan's examination of the "strange" relationship between the African state, its rebels, a…
States of emergence
Tracing a series of intertextually linked short stories from the 1990s to the present by women writers from Nigeria and its diaspora-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Unoma Azuah, Chinelo Okparanta, and Lola Shoneyin-I suggest that although the figure of the African lesbian appears "new" in the context of heightened contemporary attention to the issue of homosexuality, this figure has a literary history. Ghanaian Ama Ata Aidoo's novel Our Sister Killjoy:…
Queer Self-Fashioning in South Africa
Book Review| January 01 2015 Queer Self-Fashioning in South Africa How to Be a Real Gay: Gay Identities in Small Town South Africa. Reid, Graeme. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. xi + 305 pp. Brenna Munro Brenna Munro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 168–171. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2818588 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permission…
The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was one of the most revered figures of our time. He committed himself to a compelling political cause, suffered a long prison sentence, and led his violent and divided country to a peaceful democratic transition. His legacy, however, is not uncontested: his decision to embark on an armed struggle in the 1960s, his solitary talks with apartheid officials in the 1980s, and the economic policies adopted during his presidency still spa…
State of Peril
State of Peril suggests that narratives about sexual violence have been central to South African literature, and to the formation of ideas about race and nation, tracing a fascinating interrelated
South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come
"After apartheid, South Africa established a celebrated new political order that imagined the postcolonial nation as belonging equally to the descendents of indigenous people, colonizing settlers, transported slaves, indentured laborers, and immigrants. Its constitution, adopted in 1996, was the first in the world to include gays and lesbians as full citizens. Brenna M. Munro examines the stories that were told about sexuality, race, and nation t…
Books
Caster Semenya
Global sporting events are supposed to offer a United Nations-like model of egalitarian international cooperation, a literal level playing-field on which every nation alike can compete. They are th
Queer Family Romance
This essay examines the often overlooked role that the idea of gay rights played in producing the new imaginary of the postapartheid "rainbow nation"-and its neoliberal economic order. I suggest that the figure of the gay person became an embodiment of political change, symbolically mediating conflicts within multiracial modernity in South Africa's emergent public culture, and I analyze the work done by queer "minor characters" in novels by Nadin…
South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come
"After apartheid, South Africa established a celebrated new political order that imagined the postcolonial nation as belonging equally to the descendents of indigenous people, colonizing settlers, transported slaves, indentured laborers, and immigrants. Its constitution, adopted in 1996, was the first in the world to include gays and lesbians as full citizens. Brenna M. Munro examines the stories that were told about sexuality, race, and nation t…
Queer Family Romance
This essay examines the often overlooked role that the idea of gay rights played in producing the new imaginary of the postapartheid "rainbow nation"-and its neoliberal economic order. I suggest that the figure of the gay person became an embodiment of political change, symbolically mediating conflicts within multiracial modernity in South Africa's emergent public culture, and I analyze the work done by queer "minor characters" in novels by Nadin…
Caster Semenya
Global sporting events are supposed to offer a United Nations-like model of egalitarian international cooperation, a literal level playing-field on which every nation alike can compete. They are th
States of emergence
Tracing a series of intertextually linked short stories from the 1990s to the present by women writers from Nigeria and its diaspora-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Unoma Azuah, Chinelo Okparanta, and Lola Shoneyin-I suggest that although the figure of the African lesbian appears "new" in the context of heightened contemporary attention to the issue of homosexuality, this figure has a literary history. Ghanaian Ama Ata Aidoo's novel Our Sister Killjoy:…
Queer Self-Fashioning in South Africa
Book Review| January 01 2015 Queer Self-Fashioning in South Africa How to Be a Real Gay: Gay Identities in Small Town South Africa. Reid, Graeme. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. xi + 305 pp. Brenna Munro Brenna Munro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 168–171. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2818588 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permission…
Queer Family Romance
This essay examines the often overlooked role that the idea of gay rights played in producing the new imaginary of the postapartheid "rainbow nation"-and its neoliberal economic order. I suggest that the figure of the gay person became an embodiment of political change, symbolically mediating conflicts within multiracial modernity in South Africa's emergent public culture, and I analyze the work done by queer "minor characters" in novels by Nadin…
Caster Semenya
Global sporting events are supposed to offer a United Nations-like model of egalitarian international cooperation, a literal level playing-field on which every nation alike can compete. They are th
Books
South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come
"After apartheid, South Africa established a celebrated new political order that imagined the postcolonial nation as belonging equally to the descendents of indigenous people, colonizing settlers, transported slaves, indentured laborers, and immigrants. Its constitution, adopted in 1996, was the first in the world to include gays and lesbians as full citizens. Brenna M. Munro examines the stories that were told about sexuality, race, and nation t…
State of Peril
State of Peril suggests that narratives about sexual violence have been central to South African literature, and to the formation of ideas about race and nation, tracing a fascinating interrelated
The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was one of the most revered figures of our time. He committed himself to a compelling political cause, suffered a long prison sentence, and led his violent and divided country to a peaceful democratic transition. His legacy, however, is not uncontested: his decision to embark on an armed struggle in the 1960s, his solitary talks with apartheid officials in the 1980s, and the economic policies adopted during his presidency still spa…
Queer Self-Fashioning in South Africa
Book Review| January 01 2015 Queer Self-Fashioning in South Africa How to Be a Real Gay: Gay Identities in Small Town South Africa. Reid, Graeme. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. xi + 305 pp. Brenna Munro Brenna Munro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 168–171. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2818588 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permission…
States of emergence
Tracing a series of intertextually linked short stories from the 1990s to the present by women writers from Nigeria and its diaspora-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Unoma Azuah, Chinelo Okparanta, and Lola Shoneyin-I suggest that although the figure of the African lesbian appears "new" in the context of heightened contemporary attention to the issue of homosexuality, this figure has a literary history. Ghanaian Ama Ata Aidoo's novel Our Sister Killjoy:…
Incredible, libidinal, strange
This article gives an account of Tejumola Olaniyan's under-appreciated role in supporting the emergence of the field of queer African literary studies, and provides a provisional historiography and bibliography of that field. The article then reads Olaniyan's work, in particular Arrest The Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics, through a queer lens. Olaniyan's examination of the "strange" relationship between the African state, its rebels, a…
African Literature in Transition
This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. It explores the historical spaces and maps that African literature brings to the surface and re-imagines in novel ways. The stories that matter about what happened in the past together constitute a collective memory that African writers and readers draw upon to locate themselves within the world. The book examines the mental maps…
Queer Pasts
The past is freighted for queer Africans. Because of the ubiquitous accusation of being “un-African,” envisioning historical existence for same-gender-loving and gender-diverse Africans offers the promise of establishing cultural authenticity in the present. Queer pasts, however, tend to be elusive, complex, and contested – as recent novels explore. Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea gives readers glimpses of a queer relationship from the past throug…
Gender Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · History (5 works) · Queer (5 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works)