02865nam 2200673Ia 450 991045158990332120200520144314.094-012-0122-61-4237-9125-8(CKB)1000000000462559(EBL)556750(OCoLC)719319901(SSID)ssj0000113607(PQKBManifestationID)11991456(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113607(PQKBWorkID)10101496(PQKB)10096279(MiAaPQ)EBC556750(Au-PeEL)EBL556750(CaPaEBR)ebr10380235(OCoLC)764535998(EXLCZ)99100000000046255920050914d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBody, sexuality, and gender[electronic resource] /edited by Flora Veit-Wild & Dirk NaguschewskiAmsterdam ;New York, NY Rodopi20051 online resource (305 p.)Matatu ;no. 29-30Versions and subversions in African literatures ;1Description based upon print version of record.90-420-1626-4 Includes bibliographical references.CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Introduction; GENDERED BODIES; QUEERED BODIES; TAINTED BODIES; VIOLATED BODIES; Notes on Contributors and Editors; Notes for ContributorsLiterary 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 boMatatu ;no. 29-30.Versions and subversions in African literatures ;1.African literature20th centuryHistory and criticismFeminism in literatureHomosexuality in literatureSex in literatureElectronic books.African literatureHistory and criticism.Feminism in literature.Homosexuality in literature.Sex in literature.896Naguschewski Dirk603235Veit-Wild Flora1947-223257MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451589903321Body, sexuality, and gender2295618UNINA