Transafrica: The Languages of Postqueerness by Zabus, Chantal

Transafrica: The Languages of Postqueerness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350400764)

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Transafrica: The Languages of Postqueerness by Zabus, Chantal

Transafrica: The Languages of Postqueerness

$29.95
Transafrica: The Languages of Postqueerness by Zabus, Chantal

Transafrica: The Languages of Postqueerness

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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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. Gender nonconformity and sexual dissidence on the African continent has produced a lexical culture at the crossroads of Western discourse and local African naming practices.

Transafrica is an unprecedented attempt at identifying the new vocabularies which queer and transgender Africans have used in the first two decades of the 21st century to refer to themselves and narrativize their desire, in the face of official narratives by medical doctors, and legal and religious authorities that have often been prioritized over a gender-variant (queer, trans, non-binary) individual's lived experience, resulting in a systemic disempowerment.

Using case studies from Morocco, Egypt, Somalia, Nigeria, Uganda, Madagascar, Botswana, South Africa and more, Transafrica draws conclusions for a culture-specific and history-specific type of gender diversity outside of Western epistemic borders while confronting Euro-American models, thereby auguring a turn-of-the-third-millennium postqueer set of African open-ended identities.

Author: Chantal Zabus
ISBN-10: 1350400769
ISBN-13: 9781350400764
Publisher: Zed Books
Language: English
Published: 02/20/2025
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d
By Chantal Zabus
By Chantal Zabus
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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.

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