Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa

How were indigenous social practices deemed queer and aberrant by colonial forces?

In Queering Colonial Natal, T.J. Tallie travels to colonial Natalestablished by the British in 1843, today South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal provinceto show how settler regimes queered indigenous practices. Defining them as threats to the normative order they soug