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Transafrica

The Languages of Postqueerness

Herausgeber: Dunton, Chris; Zabus, Chantal

Beschreibung

"Transafrica is an unprecedented attempt at identifying the new vocabularies which queer and transgender Africans have used in the first two decades of the twenty-first century to refer to themselves. Transafrica explores this new lexical culture in cultural materials (novels, poetry, testimonies/life stories, interviews, film, visual art) in English, French, Arabic and other selected African languages, and the meanings which Africans have transnationally conferred upon "queer" and "transgender-from North to South"--

Autor

Chantal Zabus is Professor of Postcolonial and Gender Studies at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France. She is the author of Out in Africa (2014) and Between Rites and Rights (2007; 2016). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Postcolonial Text. Chris Dunton has worked at universities in Nigeria, Libya and South Africa, and was most recently Professor and Dean of Humanities at the National University of Lesotho, Lesotho. He is the author of e.g. Make Man Talk True: Nigerian Theatre in English since 1970 (1992); (with Mai Palmberg) Human Rights and Homosexuality (1996); Nigerian Theatre in English (1998). Dunton was the first Anglophone scholar to publish work on homosexualities in African literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 166mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9781350400757
• ISBN-10: 1350400750
• Artikelnr.: 70541231