African intimacies : race, homosexuality, and globalization / Neville Hoad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoad, Neville Wallace, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Africa.

Homosexuality.

Gay people--Africa--History.

Gay people.

AIDS (Disease)--Africa.

AIDS (Disease).

HIV infections--Africa.

HIV infections.

Africa--Social life and customs.

Africa.

Africa--Politics and government.

African LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-177) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9898-8

OCLC:

437208943