Le queer impérial : male homoerotic desire in Francophone colonial and postcolonial literature / by Julin Everett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Everett, Julin, author.

Series:

Francopolyphonies ; 24.

Francopolyphonies ; volume 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--French-speaking countries--History and criticism.

French literature.

French-speaking countries.

Homosexuality in literature.

Race in literature.

Colonies in literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 212 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, [2018]

Summary:

In Le Queer Imperial Julin Everett explores the taboo subject of male homoerotic desire between black Africans and white Europeans in francophone colonial and postcolonial literatures. Everett exposes the intersection of power and desire in blanc-noir relationships in colonial and postcolonial black Africa and postimperial Europe. Reading these literatures for their portrayals of race, gender and sexuality, Everett begins a conversation about personal and political violence in the face of forbidden desires.

Contents:

Introduction: Passages à l'acte : political and textual violence in Francophone colonial and postcolonial literatures

Colonial sexting : homoerotic voyeurism in La femme et l'homme nu by Pierre Mille and André Demaison, and Makako, singe d'Afrique by Herman Grégoire

"Entre hommes et sous l'équateur" : colonial masculinity, race and desire in Makako, singe d'Afrique

Nothing but a thing : the African male as fetishist and fetish in La femme et l'homme nu

Loving the alien : rape of the African immigré in Ousmane Sembène's Le docker noir and Saidou Bokoum's Chaine

Is looking merely the opposite of doing? : rape and representation in Le docker noir

"L'homme de couleur et le blanc" : interracial desire and the fear of the queer in Chaine

Civil servant whores and neocolonial slum-johns in Sony Labou Tansi's Je, soussigné cardiaque and Williams Sassine's Mémoire d'une peau

The space between : bisexuality, intersexuality, albinism and the postcolonial state in Mémoire d'une peau

Must la victime be feminine? postcolonial violence, gender ambiguity and homoerotic desire in Sony Labou Tansi's Je, soussigné cardiaque.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Everett, Julin, author. Le queer imperial

ISBN:

9789004365537

9004365532

OCLC:

1037893162