Out in Africa : same-sex desire in Sub-Saharan literatures & cultures /
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 ba...
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New York :
Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Anthropological Wormholes: From Pederasts to Female Husbands; When is Sexuality?; Sodomy or Pederasty: Same-sex in & out of Ritual; 'Situational Homosexuality': The Malodorous Woman & the Effeminate Native; Boy-wives in South African 'Mine Marriages'; Female Husbands in Igbo & Kikuyu Societies; 2 The Text that Dare not Speak its Name: Forging Male Colonial Intimacies; Pierre Loti's Handsome Sailor & the Spahi; Henry Morton Stanley's 'Ebony Ganymede'
- 3 The School for Scandal: Missionary Positions & African Sexual Initiations'To Do the Things of Sodom': Religion & Intercourse per Anum; 'Homosexuality? Wheyting Be Dat?'; The First 'Afro-Queers'; Etonian Fags; Outed Boys: From Sexual Initiation to Gay Emancipation; London as an Enclave of Nigerian Gay Liberation; Queering Camara Laye; Existentialist Lessons from France: One is not Born a Homosexual; One Becomes One; 4 The Stuff of Desire: Boarding School Girls, Plain Lesbians & Teenage Dykes; Gothic Ripples in the Kenyan Pool; Ghanaian & Nigerian Interrracial Lesbian Seduction in Europe.
- Gender Bending & Doing Lesbian in Nigerian & Ugandan FictionGothic Diaspora: British Teenage 'Dykes' against the 'Whole Casual Horror'; 5 Apartheid, Queerness & Diaspora; Erotic Patriarchy: Mark Behr & Stephen Gray; Double Displacements: Bessie Head, Coloured Identity & Gender Liminality; In a Queer Place & Time: South Africa, the 1950s; 'The Rising Heat': Interracial Queer Relations; 6 Male & Female Mythologies; A Humongous Reaming: Osiris, Horus & Orpheus; Phallic Horus & Sleeping Iris in K. Sello Duiker's The Quiet Violence of Dreams; The Amputated Ancestor in Doumbi-Fakoly's Révolte.
- The Dominant Male Ancestor & the 'Lesbian Sangoma'Conclusion: Trans Africa; Putting a Name on the Face of Desire: The Indigenization of Sex; Against an Apartheid of Sex; Trans; Bibliography; Filmography; Index; Copyright; Titles of Related Interest.