UID:
almafu_9960118230702883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78744-373-6
,
1-78744-374-4
Series Statement:
African literature today ; 36
Content:
ALT 36 turns a "queer eye" on Africa offering provocative (re-)readings of texts to position formerly erased sexualities and contemporary sexual expression among Africans on the continent and abroad.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Mar 2020).
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Editorial Article. Desiring Africans: An Introduction / John C. Hawley -- Articles. Visual Activism: A Look at the Documentary Born This Way / Unoma Azuah -- African Queer, African Digital: Reflections on Zanele Muholi's Films4peace & Other Works / Naminata Diabate -- To Revolutionary Type Love: An Interview with Kawira Mwirichia, Neo Musangi, Mal Muga, Awuor Onyango, Faith Wanjala & Wawira Njeru / Ng'ang'a Muchiri -- Liminal Spaces & Conflicts of Culture in South African Queer Films: Inxeba(The Wound) / Grant Andrews -- Gay, African, Middle-Class & Fabulous: Writing Queerness in New Writing from Nigeria & South Africa / Shola Adenekan -- The City as a Metaphor of Safe Queer Experimentation in Monica Arac de Nyeko's 'Jambula Tree' & Beatrice Lamwaka's 'Pillar of Love' / Edgar Nabutanyi -- Homosexuality & the Postcolonial Idea: Notes from Kabelo Sello Duiker's The Quiet Violence of Dreams / Ives S. Loukson -- A Warm, Woolly Silence: Rethinking Silence through T.O Molefe's 'Lower Main' & Monica Arac de Nyeko's 'Jambula Tree' / Robert LaRue -- Breaking/Voicing the Silence: Diriye Osman's Fairy Tales for Lost Children / Asunción Aragón -- Reading for Ruptures: HIV & AIDS, Sexuality & Silencing in Zoë Wicomb's 'In Search of Tommie' / Lizzy Attree -- Queer Temporalities & Epistemologies of Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows & Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees / Kerry Manzo -- Dilemma of an African Woman Faced with Bisexuality: A Reading of Armand Meula's Coq mâle, coq femelle / Stella Onome Omonigho -- Featured Articles. African Oral Literature & the Environment / Ndubuisi Osuagwu -- 'From the Street to the World of Art': Writing Women's Liberation in Nawal El Saadawi's Zeina / Simone James Alexander -- Literary Supplement. Pregnancy in the Time of Ebola (short story) / M'Bha Kamara -- Okonkwo's Revenge (short story) / Pede Hollist -- Guilt (short story) / Chioma Duruaku -- Tribute. Ben Obumselu (1930-2017): Pioneer African Literary Critic / Isidore Diala -- Reviews. Ezra Chitando & Adriaan van Klinken, eds, Christianity and Controversies over Homosexuality in Contemporary Africa; and Adriaan van Klinken & Ezra Chitando, eds, Public Religion and the Politics of Homosexuality in Africa / John C. Hawley -- Chantal Zabus, Out in Africa: Same-sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures & Cultures / John C. Hawley -- Unoma Azuah, Blessed Body: The Secret Lives of Nigerian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender / Iniobong I. Uko -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions / Nonye C. Ahumibe -- Razinat T. Mohammed, The Travails of a First Wife / Nonye C. Ahumibe -- Efe Farinre, Folk Tales are Forever / Nonye C. Ahumibe -- M. J. Simms-Maddox, Priscilla: Engaging in the Game of Politics / Petrolina Ifeoma Kpanah -- Uzodinma Iweala, Speak No Evil / Obi Nwakanma.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84701-185-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84701-184-5
Language:
English
URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787443730/type/BOOK
