African intimacies [[electronic resource] ] : race, homosexuality, and globalization / / Neville Hoad

• Autore: Hoad Neville Wallace <1966->
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.76/60967
• Soggetto topico: Homosexuality - Africa; Gay people - Africa - History; AIDS (Disease) - Africa; HIV infections - Africa
• Soggetto geografico: Africa Social life and customs; Africa Politics and government
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-177) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 addres
• Titolo autorizzato: African intimacies
• ISBN: 0-8166-9898-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781805803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II