Elizabeth W. Williams

Primitive Normativity

Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya

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Produktbeschreibung

Elizabeth W. Williams traces the genealogy of a narrative about the primitive normativity of African sexuality that British colonial authorities in Kenya used to justify their control over African populations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9781478025498
• ISBN-10: 1478025492
• Artikelnr.: 67746252

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth W. Williams is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky and coeditor of The History of Sexuality: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: Primitive Normativity  1
1. The Intellectual Roots of Primitive Normativity  24
2. Sleeping Dictionaries and Mobile Metropoles: Female (A)Sexuality in the
Silberrad Scandal of 1908  42
3. “Stoop Low to Conquer”: Primitive Normativity and Trusteeship in the
Kenyan “Indian Crisis” of 1923  69
4. White Peril: Rape, Race, and Contamination  92
5. Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora
Strange’s Kenyan Novels  117
6. Eating the Other: Erotic Consumption in Anti-Mau Mau Discourse  139
Conclusion  163
Notes  169
Bibliography  211
Index  223