WILLIAM J. SPURLIN is Reader in English and Director of the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence at the University of Sussex.

• Broadening Postcolonial Studies, Decolonising Queer Studies: Disciplinary Transitions and Social Change in the 'New' South Africa Reclaiming Insurgent Sexualities: Migrant Labor and Same-Sex Marriages on the South African Gold Mines Affective Bonds Between Women in Lesotho: Retheorizing Gender, Sexuality, and Lesbian Existence Nationalism, Homophobia, and the Politics of 'New' South African Nationhood Sexual/Cultural Hybridity in the 'New' South Africa: Emergent Sites of New Transnational Queer Politics Transforming Theory/Transforming Borders: Postcolonial Queer Enquiry and/as a Politics of Decolonisation

'Substantially original in content and approach.' - Alan Sinfield, Sussex University 'Spurlin makes a compelling case for the need to queer postcolonial theory and decolonize queer theory, arguing cogently that only these moves can enable a fuller understanding of non-heteronormative sexualities in Africa.' - Ruth Vanita, author of Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West