Body, Sexuality, and Gender : Versions and Subversions in African Literatures 1.
Title:
Body, Sexuality, and Gender : Versions and Subversions in African Literatures 1.
Author:
Veit-Wild, Flora.
ISBN:
9789401201223
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (305 pages)
Series:
Matatu - Journal for African Culture and Society, 29-30: Versions and Subversions in African Literat ; v.No. 30
Matatu - Journal for African Culture and Society, 29-30: Versions and Subversions in African Literat
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Lifting the Veil of Secrecy -- GENDERED BODIES -- Tête-à-tête With the Chief: Post-Womanist Discourse in Bessie Head's Maru -- Roots/Routes: Place, Bodies and Sexuality in Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning -- Mad Body-Gifts: A Postcolonial Myth of Motherhood in Calixthe Beyala's Tu t'appelleras Tanga -- Male Feminist Fiction: Literary Subversions of a Gender-Biased Script -- QUEERED BODIES -- Between the Arches of Queer Desire and Race: Representing Bisexual Bodies in the Rainbow Nation -- Queer Inclinations and Representations: Dambudzo Marechera and Zimbabwean Literature -- Versions of Yearning and Dissent: The Troping of Desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- The Emerging Lesbian Voice in Nigerian Feminist Literature -- African Cinema and Representations of (Homo)Sexuality -- TAINTED BODIES -- Boundless Whiteness? Feminism and White Women in the Mirror of African Feminist Writing -- Altered Surfaces: The Ambi Generation of Yvonne Vera's Without a Name and Butterfly Burning -- Dark Anatomies in Arthur Nortje's Poetry -- Forbidden Bodies: Relocation and Empowerment in Williams Sassine's Novels -- VIOLATED BODIES -- From the Horse's Mouth: The Politics of Remembrance in Women's Writing on the Nigerian Civil War -- Nigerian War Literature by Women: From Civil War to Gender War -- Writing Sexual Violence: Words and Silences in Yvonne Vera's Under the Tongue -- Reading the Unspeakable: Rape in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace -- Notes on Contributors and Editors -- Notes for Contributors.
Abstract:
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 body and sexuality are not only subjected to power relations in terms of gender, but also in terms of race, ethnicity, and the legacy of colonialism.While the sections "Gifted Bodies" and "Queered Bodies" show new developments in viewing body and sexuality as creative powers, the sections "Tainted Bodies" and "Violated Bodies" comprise essays that investigate the exposure of the body to physical aggression and other traumatic experiences.Some of the authors treated in detail are: Ama Ata Aidoo, Mariama Bâ, Calixthe Beyala, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Bessie Head, Sheila Kohler, Flora Nwapa, Promise Okekwe, Yvonne Vera; André Brink, J.M. Coetzee, K. Sello Duiker, Nuruddin Farah, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Dambudzo Marechera, Arthur Nortje, Ben Okri, Shamim Sarif, and Williams Sassine.CONTRIBUTORSAkachi Adimora--EzeigboSusan Arndt Unoma N. AzuahElleke Boehmer Monica BungaroLucy Valerie GrahamJessica Hemmings Sigrid G. KöhlerMartina KopfChikwenye Okonjo OgunyemiMarion PapeRobert MupondeSarah NuttallDrew ShawAlioune SowCheryl StobieAlexie Tcheuyap.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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