Somewhere in the Double Rainbow : Representations of Bisexuality in Post-Apartheid Novels

C. Stobie

Bisexuality has been explored in increasing numbers of South African novels published since 1994. In a society previously dominated by an either/or mindset, what does this development signify? The innovative 'Somewhere in the Double Rainbow' answers this question by examining a number of these novels in depth, looking at South African literature, the nation and citizenship in a new light. She argues that Damon Galgut's In a Strange Room: Three Journeys portrays bisexual characters in terms of stereotypes; however, other novels, by authors across a range of subject positions, are more open and accepting of sexual fluidity. The ones which the author discusses are Fred Khumalo's Seven Steps to Heaven, Zukiswa Wanner's Men of the South, Zinaid Meeran's Saracen at the Gates and Sarah Lotz's Exhibit A and Tooth and Nailed.