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Title:Cruising across cultures in the novels of Anthony Sher
Author:Jacobs, J.U.ISNI
Year:1997
Periodical:Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa
Volume:9
Issue:2
Pages:112-131
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subject:literature
About person:Antony Sher (1949-2021)ISNI
Abstract:The South African writer Antony Sher was born in 1949 and settled in England in 1968. He has been said to write out of the 'triple stigma of being South African, Jewish and gay'. This article analyses Sher's attempts in his novels to reinscribe himself into a liberal democratic South African discourse. The bordercrossing between different cultures today is no longer predicated on the idea of translation as an assimilatory relationship of embrace by subject of object, but rather on a relationship of mutual encounter between subject and subject. The article analyses 'Woza Shakespeare!', an account of Sher's involvement in the 1995 Market Theatre and Royal National Theatre Studio coproduction of Shakespeare's 'Titus Andronicus'. The account is underpinned by two distinct agendas. Both have to do with identity, one claimed in a liberal affirmation of (gay) minority rights, the other reclaimed in relation to the new democratic order in South Africa. The article continues with an examination of Sher's preoccupation with crosscultural engagement in his novels 'Middlepost' (1988), 'The indoor boy' (1991), and 'Cheap lives' (1995).
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