Author(s): Taylor Riley
Series: Theorizing Ethnography
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Complex meanings, competing liberations
Grounding and sounding a descriptive queer ethnographic
critique
Research methods
Further notes on language and a sack of cows
Chapter outline
1. Theorizing un/dignified sounds in the postapartheid landscape
National and provincial (hi)stories of sexuality
On workshopping and voices of authority
Refused sounds, refused identifications
Are you a man or a woman?
Identities and relatedness in a queer time and place
2. Performance, everyday labors, and world-making
Performance artvocacy and precarious embodiment
Labors of everyday existence
Productive absences and architecting knowledge
Queer kinship as world-making
Resistance, queering, and normative possibilities
3. Acting straight and acting straight: (De)queering performativity
Queering same-sex marriage
Sometimes you can act
Be straight (with me)
Revisiting gender, sexuality, and queer relationalities
Lesbian dignities and their straight queerness
4. Language, subversion, and dignified sounds: The making and unmaking of wor(l)ds
Queer word-making: on studs, femmes, fish, and first curries
Negotiating isiZulu vernacular and hidden subjectivities
Violence, reverence, and queer natalpolitics
On names and knowing
5. Sex after discourse, life after queer
Queer lines of love
Loud living, quiet dignities
Querying the post-queer
Final thoughts
Index
