Body, sexuality, and gender [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Flora Veit-Wild & Dirk Naguschewski

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 896
• Soggetto topico: African literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Feminism in literature; Homosexuality in literature; Sex in literature
• Altri autori: NaguschewskiDirk Veit-WildFlora <1947->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Body, sexuality, and gender
• ISBN: 94-012-0122-6; 1-4237-9125-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777647303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Matatu ; ; no. 29-30.; Versions and subversions in African literatures ; ; 1.