Out in Africa : same-sex desire in Sub-Saharan literatures & cultures

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Out in Africa : same-sex desire in Sub-Saharan literatures & cultures

Title remainder

same-sex desire in Sub-Saharan literatures & cultures

Statement of responsibility

Chantal Zabus

Title variation

Same-sex desire in Sub-Saharan literatures & cultures

Creator

• Zabus, Chantal J

Author

• Zabus, Chantal J

Subject

• African literature
• African literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• African literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books
• 1800-2099
• Homosexuality -- Africa
• Homosexuality in literature
• Homosexuality in literature
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies
• Homosexuality
• Africa

Genre

• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

E7B

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography
• filmographies