03051nam 22006494a 450 991078180580332120231212124454.00-8166-9898-8(CKB)1000000000488202(EBL)340770(OCoLC)437208943(SSID)ssj0000099846(PQKBManifestationID)11138011(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099846(PQKBWorkID)10014780(PQKB)10706791(MiAaPQ)EBC340770(OCoLC)229034616(MdBmJHUP)muse38791(Au-PeEL)EBL340770(CaPaEBR)ebr10225523(CaONFJC)MIL522991(EXLCZ)99100000000048820220060414d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfrican intimacies[electronic resource] race, homosexuality, and globalization /Neville HoadMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20071 online resource (224 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4916-2 0-8166-4915-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-177) and index.African sodomy in the missionary position : corporeal intimacies and signifying regimes -- Decolonizing the body : the African and African American in Wole Soyinka's The interpreters -- Neoliberalism and the church : the World Conference of Anglican Bishops -- White man's burden, white man's disease : tracking lesbian and gay human rights -- The intellectual, the archive, and the pandemic : Thabo Mbeki's AIDS blues -- An elegy for African cosmopolitanism : Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to our Hillbrow.There have been few book-length engagements with the question of sexuality in Africa, let alone African homosexuality. African Intimacies simultaneously responds to the public debate on the ÒAfricannessÓ of homosexuality and interrogates the meaningfulness of the terms ÒsexualityÓ and ÒhomosexualityÓ outside Euro-American discourse. Speculating on cultural practices interpreted by missionaries as sodomy and resistance to colonialism, Neville Hoad begins by analyzing the 1886 Bugandan martyrs incidentÑthe execution of thirty men in the royal court. Then, in a series of close readings, he addresHomosexualityAfricaGay peopleAfricaHistoryAIDS (Disease)AfricaHIV infectionsAfricaAfricaSocial life and customsAfricaPolitics and governmentHomosexualityGay peopleHistory.AIDS (Disease)HIV infections306.76/60967Hoad Neville Wallace1966-1579525MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781805803321African intimacies3859698UNINA