This article reads a set of South African women’s political memoirs as both propaganda pieces and fantasy texts. Inspired by Joan W. Scott’s recent explorations of feminist fantasy, the article draws attention to a set of scenes that recur across diverse political memoirs: scenes of interracial physical and domestic intimacy and scenes of collective national voyaging. Reading these depictions as fantasies, this article argues, lets us understand these women memoirists as propagandists for a national liberation cause. In their texts, these women espouse a particular and gendered nationalism that insists on public and private intimacy as a key component of a (fantasized) free South Africa, even as they acknowledge the unease inherent in seeking out these intimacies. This reading disrupts scholarly accounts that have tended to marginalize women as contributors to nationalist discourses, and it enables a deeper analysis of the tensions of race and interracial intimacy that beset the antiapartheid movement.

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幻想国家：南非妇女政治回忆录中的民族主义、亲密关系和越界

本文将一组南非妇女政治回忆录作为宣传片和幻想文本阅读。受琼·W·斯科特最近对女权主义幻想的探索的启发，这篇文章提请注意一系列在不同政治回忆录中反复出现的场景：跨种族身体和家庭亲密关系的场景以及集体全国航行的场景。本文认为，将这些描述视为幻想，让我们将这些女性回忆录家理解为民族解放事业的宣传者。在她们的文本中，这些女性拥护一种特殊的性别民族主义，这种民族主义坚持将公共和私人的亲密关系作为（幻想的）自由南非的关键组成部分，尽管她们承认寻求这些亲密关系所固有的不安。