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Queer Africa : selected stories / edited by Makhosazana Xaba and Karen Martin.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, African (English).
- Short stories, South African (English).
- African fiction (English)--21st century.
- African fiction (English).
- South African fiction (English)--21st century.
- South African fiction (English).
- Homosexuality--Africa--Fiction.
- Homosexuality.
- Homosexuality--South Africa--Fiction.
- Sexual minorities--Africa--Fiction.
- Sexual minorities.
- South Africa.
- Africa.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Genre:
- African fiction (English)
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- LGBTQ+ fiction
- Physical Description:
- 264 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, UK : New Internationalist Publications, 2018.
- Summary:
- This collection draws together twenty-five stories selected from two ground breaking anthologies published by MaThoko Books, an imprint of Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA) in South Africa. The first volume, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction won the 26th Lambda Literary Award. In 2017 Queer Africa 2: New fiction added fresh material to the LGBTIQA+ literary landscape.;Stories from Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Botswana, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe celebrate the diversity and fluidity of queer and African identifications and expressions.
- Contents:
- Nine piecees of desire / Idza L
- Pampers / Olakunle Ologunro
- Sethunya likes girls better / Wame Molefhe
- Pelican driver / Davina Owombre
- Jambula tree / Monica Arac de Nyeko
- Going home / Alistair Mackay
- Staying afloat / Unoma Azuah
- Maimuna doesn't know / Wilfred Jean-Louis
- Iyawo / Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene
- Chief of the home / Beatrice Lamwaka
- Leaving civvy street / Annie Holmes
- Pyrrhic ictory / Ola Osaze
- Pub 360 / H W Mukami
- Rock / Lindiewe Nkutha
- This tomorrow was Christmas / Juliet Kushaba
- The day he came / Amatesiro Dore
- All covered up / Dolar Vasani
- Chapter thirteen / K. Sello Duiker
- Àwúre Ìf́́ȩràn / Rafeeat Aliyu
- The bath / Wamuwi Mbao
- My dad forgot my name? / Victor Lewis
- Chebor's light / Nancy Lindah Ilamwenya.
- Notes:
- Lambda Literary Awards - LGBT Anthology, Winner, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781780264639
- 1780264631
- OCLC:
- 1019991943
- Publisher Number:
- 99978939910
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