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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811758303321

Titolo

Body, sexuality, and gender / / edited by Flora Veit-Wild & Dirk Naguschewski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2005

ISBN

94-012-0122-6

1-4237-9125-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Matatu ; ; no. 29-30

Versions and subversions in African literatures ; ; 1

Altri autori (Persone)

NaguschewskiDirk

Veit-WildFlora <1947->

Disciplina

896

Soggetti

African literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Feminism in literature

Homosexuality in literature

Sex in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Introduction; GENDERED BODIES; QUEERED BODIES; TAINTED BODIES; VIOLATED BODIES; Notes on Contributors and Editors; Notes for Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Literary representations of the body from Africa as well as narrative strategies of writing the body have only recently begun to receive wider critical attention. The reflections on body, sexuality, and gender in African literary texts brought together in this volume do not consider these three terms as separate entities but instead as closely related to each other, each term questioning the other: bodies and sexualities that are transgressing concepts of gender, gender that is probing body and sexuality. With regard to Africa, the three concepts form a particularly contested space, because bo