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Author:   Professor Chantal Zabus (University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France) ,  Chris Dunton
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9781350400757

ISBN 10:   1350400750
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   20 February 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgments Introduction Chantal Zabus and Chris Dunton CASE-STUDIES I.Islamic Africa 1.Powers of resistance and the Lexicon of Post-Queer Sexuality in Muhammad Abdelnabi’s In the Spider’s Room Omar Boukhatem, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France 2.Visualising Transgender Morocco: Daoud Aoulad-Syad’s Bye-Bye Souirty (Adieu Forain) Todd W. Reeser, University of Pittsburgh, USA 3.Diasporic Trans/Forming in Diriye Osman’s The Butterfly Jungle, Afdhere Jama’s Being Queer and Somali, Tofik Dibi’s Djinn, and Lamya H’s Hijab Butch Blues John C. Hawley, University of Santa Clara, USA II.West Africa 4.‘Dare Speak Their Name’: The Poetry of Logan February Chris Dunton, formerly of National University of Lesotho 5.‘Deliver us from Evil’: Pentecostal Christianity, Queer Sexualities and the Language of Deliverance in Nigerian Literature Adriaan Van Klinken, University of Leeds, UK, and Abenathi Z. Makinana, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa 6.Non-Genealogical Radical Queerness: On A Schizophrenic Reading of Frieda Ekotto’s Chuchote pas trop Naminata Diabate, Cornell University, USA III.Southern Africa 7. Translects: Post-Queering Transgender in South African and Nigerian Autofictions Chantal Zabus, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France 8.‘The Sarimbavy of Madagascar: Beyond Semantic Boundaries and the Politics of (In)visibilisation Alyette Rajaofera Andriamasinalivao, University of Paris-Diderot, France & Université d’ Antananarivo, Madagascar 9.The Eco-Queer Tree of South African Constitutionalism Francois Lion-Cachet, University of Cape Town, South Africa TESTIMONIES 10.1995, Reading the Signs of the time Philippe-Joseph Salazar, University of Cape Town, South Africa 11.‘Transafrica: Joan Hambidge to Chantal Zabus Joan Hambidge, University of Cape Town, South Africa 12.Ó: An Essay on Pronouns and Power Among the Yorùbá Logan February, Purdue University, USA 13.‘After Queer, After Decriminalization: Botswana: John McAllister and Katlego K. Kolanyane-Kesupile in Conversation’ John McAllister, formerly of the University of Botswana, Gaborone, and Katlego K. Kolanyane-Kesupile

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From a “post-queer” perspective, this interdisciplinary collection makes an invaluable contribution to LGBTQI African studies through a wide variety of thematic and theoretical approaches. Offering broad coverage of the continent and its languages, its chapters work through the multiple meanings contained in and promised the Trans in its title. * Jarrod Hayes, Monash University, Australia * Let us welcome this newest stake into the heart of that zombie idea, “homosexuality is un-African.” Pioneers of the study of literary representations of same-sex desire in Africa, Dunton and Zabus have brought together an always fascinating and sometimes fun collection of essays focused primarily on lexical cultures around the continent. How do Africans express sexual nuance or dissidence, or adapt meanings to French and English terms, in Arabic, Somali, Malagasy and other indigenous languages? From critical assessments of the proliferation of queer(ish) characters in literature, film and poetry by African creators, to close case studies of the cultural production of meanings, this is a wide-ranging and powerful intervention. And dire as the sexual rights situation may sometimes seem in much of Africa and indeed around this currently oft-demented world, the gist of the book and the works it considers is positive, verging on optimistic. * Marc Epprecht, Queen's University, Canada *

From a “post-queer” perspective, this interdisciplinary collection makes an invaluable contribution to LGBTQI African studies through a wide variety of thematic and theoretical approaches. Offering broad coverage of the continent and its languages, its chapters work through the multiple meanings contained in and promised the Trans in its title. * Jarrod Hayes, Monash University, Australia *

Author Information

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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