LEADER 04366nam 22006855 450 001 996483169603316 005 20240430001937.0 010 $a0-520-38186-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520381865 035 $a(CKB)5590000000933970 035 $a(DE-B1597)627813 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520381865 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90660 035 $a(OCoLC)1296689665 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30469334 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30469334 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000933970 100 $a20220729h20222022 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmphibious Subjects $eSasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana /$fKwame Edwin Otu 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cUniversity of California Press$d2022 210 1$aBerkeley, CA :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2022] 210 4$d©2022 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 225 0 $aNew Sexual Worlds ;$v2 311 $a0-520-38185-8 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroducing Amphibious Subjects --$tPart One Setting the Scenes --$t1. Situating Sasso: Mapping Effeminate Subjectivities and Homoerotic Desire in Postcolonial Ghana --$t2. Contesting Homogeneity: Sasso Complexity in the Face of Neoliberal LGBT+ Politics --$tPart Two Amphibious Subjects in Rival Geographies --$t3. Amphibious Subjectivity: Queer Self-Making at the Intersection of Colliding Modernities in Neoliberal Ghana --$t4. The Paradox of Rituals: Queer Possibilities in Heteronormative Scenes --$tPart Three. Becoming and Unbecoming Amphibious Subjects in Hetero/Homo Colonial Vortices --$t5. Palimpsestic Projects: Heterocolonial Missions in Post-Independent Ghana (1965?1975) --$t6. Queer Liberal Expeditions: The BBC?s The World?s Worst Place to Be Gay? and the Paradoxes of Homocolonialism --$tConclusion: Queering Queer Africa? --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men?known in local parlance as sasso?residing in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye's notion of ";amphibious personhood,"; Kwame Edwin Otu argues that sasso embody and articulate amphibious subjectivity in their self-making, creating an identity that moves beyond the homogenizing impulses of western categories of gender and sexuality. Such subjectivity simultaneously unsettles claims purported by the Christian heteronationalist state and LGBT+ human rights organizations that Ghana is predominantly heterosexual or homophobic. Weaving together personal interactions with sasso, participant observation, autoethnography, archival sources, essays from African and African-diasporic literature, and critical analyses of documentaries such as the BBC's The World?s Worst Place to Be Gay, Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic meditation on how Africa is configured as the ";heart of homophobic darkness"; in transnational LGBT+ human rights imaginaries. 410 0$aNew Sexual Worlds Series 606 $aEffeminacy$zGhana$zAccra 606 $aGender identity$zGhana$zAccra 606 $aHomosexuality$zGhana$zAccra 606 $aHuman rights$xAnthropological aspects$zGhana$zAccra 606 $aSexual minorities$zGhana$zAccra 606 $aSexual minority community$zGhana$zAccra 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social$2bisacsh 610 $asasso 610 $aethnography 610 $amen 615 0$aEffeminacy 615 0$aGender identity 615 0$aHomosexuality 615 0$aHuman rights$xAnthropological aspects 615 0$aSexual minorities 615 0$aSexual minority community 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. 676 $a306.7609667 686 $aSOC002010$aSOC064010$2bisacsh 700 $aOtu$b Kwame Edwin$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$00 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996483169603316 996 $aAmphibious Subjects$92901185 997 $aUNISA