Out in Africa: Same-sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures & CulturesBoydell & Brewer Ltd, 2013 - 298 pagina's Homosexuality was and still is thought to be quintessentially 'un-African'. Yet in this book Chantal Zabus examines the anthropological, cultural and literary representations of male and female same-sex desire in a pan-African context from the nineteenth century to the present. Reaching back to early colonial contacts between Europe and Africa, and covering a broad geographical spectrum, along a north-south axis from Mali to South Africa and an east-west axis from Senegal to Kenya, here is a comparative approach encompassing two colonial languages (English and French) and some African languages. Out in Africa charts developments in Sub-Saharan African texts and contexts through the work of 7 colonial writers and some 25 postcolonial writers. These texts grow in complexity from roughly the 1860s, through the 1990s with the advent of queer theory, up to 2010. The author identifies those texts that present, in a subterraneous way at first and then with increased confidence, homosexuality-as-an-identity rather than an occasional or ritualized practice, as was the case in the early ethnographic imagination. The work sketches out an evolutionary pattern in representing male and female same-sex desire in the novel and other texts, as well as in the cultural and political contexts that oppose such desires. Chantal Zabus is IUF Professor in Comparative Postcolonial Literatures and Gender Studies at Universit Paris 13 (now Sorbonne-Paris-Cit ). She is author of Between Rites and Rights; The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel, and Tempests after Shakespeare.She is presently Editor-in-Chief of the on-line journal Postcolonial Text. |
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To Make Things Perfectly Queer | 1 |
From Pederasts to Female Husbands | 16 |
Forging Male Colonial Intimacies | 52 |
Missionary Positions African Sexual Initiations | 75 |
Boarding School Girls Plain Lesbians Teenage Dykes | 125 |
5 Apartheid Queerness Diaspora | 160 |
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Male Female Mythologies | 217 |
Trans Africa | 251 |
Bibliography | 269 |
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Backcover
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Adrian Afrikaner ancestor Apartheid Arab autobiography Bessie Head bisexual body boy-wives British butch Camara Laye Chapter colonial Coloured context cultural diasporic Dibia discourse Disley Disley’s Elizabeth erotic European father Female Husbands feminine femme fiction French Frikkie Gay and Lesbian gender girls Gothic Gray’s Head’s Henry Morton Stanley heterosexual Ibid identity Igbo indigenous intimacy Johannesburg Judith Jack Kalulu Kenya Laye lesbian lesbian sangomas London Loti Loti’s Maddy’s male homosexuality man’s Marc Epprecht Mark Behr Mark Behr’s Marnus marriage Maru McLynn Miranda Miss G mother narrative Neville Hoad Nigerian Njau Nkabinde’s Nkunzi novel ofthe Ofunne Paris partner pederasty Pete Pete Walker Pete’s Postcolonial queer theory rape relationship rites Routledge same-sex desire same-sex relations sangoma scene Sello Sello Duiker sexual Sheila Kohler sodomy South African spahi Stanley Stanley’s story Sub-Saharan texts transgender University Press West African Western woman women writers York young Zandile Nkabinde Zulu