African Intimacies Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization

Name: African Intimacies Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization
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ISBN: 9780816649167

ISBN-10: 0816649162

ISBN-13: 9780816649167

Edition: 2007

Authors: Neville Hoad

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There have been few book-length engagements with the question of sexuality in Africa, let alone African homosexuality. African Intimacies simultaneously responds to the public debate on the "Africanness" of homosexuality and interrogates the meaningfulness of the terms "sexuality" and "homosexuality" outside Euro-American discourse. Speculating on cultural practices interpreted by missionaries as sodomy and resistance to colonialism, Neville Hoad begins by analyzing the 1886 Bugandan martyrs incident--the execution of thirty men in the royal court. Then, in a series of close readings, he addresses questions of race, sex, and globalization in the 1965 Wole Soyinka novel The Interpreters,…

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List price: $25.50
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 1/3/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



African Sodomy in the Missionary Position: Corporeal Intimacies and Signifying Regimes



Decolonizing the Body: The African and African American in Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters



Neoliberalism and the Church: The World Conference of Anglican Bishops



White Man's Burden, White Man's Disease: Tracking Lesbian and Gay Human Rights



The Intellectual, the Archive, and the Pandemic: Thabo Mbeki's AIDS Blues



An Elegy for African Cosmopolitanism: Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow


Notes


Bibhography


Index