Queens of the Mother City
A Queer Investigation into the Roots of Cape Town’s Royals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13015237 |
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| Authors | Cullen Goldblatt (0000-0001-9700-9244, Binghamton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 298-316 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2052-2614 • E-ISSN: 2052-2622 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/pli.2024.19 |
| OpenAlex | W4408121435 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
What political imaginaries have existed beyond the nation-state? What might the misfitting (queer?) materials of the past—those unamenable to inclusion in narratives of national resistance—teach us about colonial and apartheid pasts? What alternatives to the colony and its contemporary forms might we imagine now? To respond to these questions, this essay assembles an archive of twentieth-century Capetonian queenliness, placing the historical Queen Elizabeth in proximity with textual renderings of the queer queens of apartheid Cape Town. A fictional, tongue-in-cheek, book review, published in Drum magazine in 1977, figures as a paradigmatic text of a mid-century popular textual genre that is animated by the sensibility that I call “camp royalist.” The critical impetus that animates camp royalism provokes us to reconsider how we represent colonial and apartheid pasts and invites us to think about possible future, nonnational, political collectivities and critiques
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Defiant Desire
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Dictionaries and Discourses of Deviance
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Khoisan resistance to the Dutch in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
African Loyalism and Its Discontents
The rediscovery of the ordinary
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Neither Settler nor Native
Citizen and Subject
Beyond the "memory" of apartheid
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