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This paper examines how Lewis Nkosi’s Mating Birds exposes the racialized myth of the hypersexual Black male embedded in South Africa’s system of internal colonialism. The novel shows how a Black man’s desire for a white woman is immediately rendered criminal through apartheid law and public discourse. By drawing on Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Gayatri Spivak, Pierre Bourdieu, and Sander Gilman, the study analyzes how legal, educational, and scientific institutions construct a “regime of truth” that marks Black male sexuality as deviant while idealizing white womanhood. Particular attention is given to the Immorality Act, courtroom rhetoric, and psychiatric evaluation, all of which recast desire as pathology and legitimize punitive control. Nkosi’s use of retrospective narration and the recurring image of the mating birds further reveals the symbolic violence that sustains racial hierarchy. Through these strategies, the novel uncovers the mechanisms through which sexual politics function as a central tool of internal colonial domination and invites a critical reconsideration of race, desire, and justice in apartheid South Africa. Ultimately, the study demonstrates that Nkosi's novel not only exposes but actively dismantles the ideological foundations of apartheid's racial and sexual order.

목차

Ⅰ. 서론
Ⅱ. ‘경계넘기’와 금기의 정치성
Ⅲ. 흑인의 욕망과 백인의 법
Ⅳ. 교육의 역설과 법정의 폭력
Ⅴ. 결론
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• 김현아 [ Hyun-Ah Kim | 광주대학교 기초교양학부 조교수 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820