Lindsey B. Green-Simms

Queer African Cinemas

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Produktbeschreibung

Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, showing how these films record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer Africans experience while at the same time imagining new hopes and possibilities.

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Produktdetails

• A Camera Obscura book
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781478015406
• ISBN-10: 1478015403
• Artikelnr.: 61441443

Autorenporträt

Lindsey B. Green-Simms is Associate Professor of Literature at American University and author of Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Registering Resistance in Queer African Cinemas  1
1. Making Waves: Queer Eccentricity and West African Wayward Women  37
2. Touching Nollywood: From Negation to Negotiation in Queer Nigerian
Cinema  73
3. Cutting Masculinities: Post-Apartheid South African Cinema  123
4. Holding Space, Saving Joy: Queer Love and Critical Resilience in East
Africa  165
Coda. Queer African Cinema's Destiny  203
Notes  211
Filmography  227
References  231
Index  243