Queering Colonial Natal : Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southe...
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Queering Colonial Natal : Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southe.... Queering Colonial Natal : Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa, Paperback by Tallie, T. J., ISBN 1517905184, ISBN-13 9781517905187, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This book examines the history of Natal, a 19th-century settler colony established by the British in 1843, known today as South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province. It focuses on social relations within the colony and how institutions like marriage, the family, the church, the military, and the colony depend upon assumptions of normativity, heterosexual reproduction, and proper behavior. It combines queer theory with indigenous studies to consider how the Zulu practices of polygamy and the ritual exchange of cattle from the groom's family to the wife’s upon marriage became sites for the demarcation of "proper behavior"; settler claims to self-control and sobriety and the attempts of the settler state to legislate racial difference by restricting alcohol consumption to Europeans; friendship and sociability across the gendered or raced lines in the colony; the dynamics of the Christian mission and how developing categories of race and gender were impacted by discourses of spiritual transformation proposed by European and American missionaries; and the rise of educational institutions in colonial Natal in the context of claims of belonging. Earlier versions of some chapters have been previously published elsewhere. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()
