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Queer Africa : selected stories / edited by Makhosazana Xaba and Karen Martin.

Van Pelt Library PR9348 .Q83 2018
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Xaba, Makhosazana, editor.
Martin, Karen, 1963- editor.
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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