What is it about?
When lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender individuals live in communities where their gender and sexual difference is either criminalised or taboo, such individuals have to live out their difference in private or domestic spaces. This is normally called being closeted. This paper analyses how the closet is a signifier of how queer individuals have to negotiate and construct their very existence.
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Why is it important?
This paper adds new knowledge to the intersection of the fields of queer and literary studies in Zimbabwe. It extends our understanding of queer sexualities.
Perspectives
I hope this paper adds to our understanding of queer sexualities especially in contexts like Zimbabwe where such ways of being are criminalised and pathologised.
Prof Gibson Ncube
Stellenbosch University
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This page is a summary of: Deconstructing the closet: A sociological reading of Tendai Huchu’s novel,The Hairdresser of Harare, South African Review of Sociology, July 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2016.1163288.
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