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African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization
Neville Hoad
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Description for African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; JFSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
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, examines the emblematic ... Read more
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, examines the emblematic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816649167
SKU
V9780816649167
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