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Queer contiguities of Nigerian literature / Kerry Manzo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manzo, Kerry, author.
- Series:
- African humanities and the arts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nigerian literature (English)--20th century--History and criticism.
- Nigerian literature (English).
- Nigerian literature (English)--21st century--History and criticism.
- Sexual minorities--Nigeria--Social conditions.
- Sexual minorities.
- Women--Nigeria--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Sexual minorities in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Heterosexism in literature.
- LGBTQ+ literature.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 167 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- "Queer Continuities of Nigerian Literature explores how normative ideas of sex and gender have shaped the development of Nigerian literature. Tracing this influence from the rise of mid-twentieth-century modernist writing to the contemporary appearance of LGBTQIA literature, Kerry Manzo presents a new framework for understanding Nigerian literature, one in which sexuality and gender-or more specifically, their containment through national discourses of heteronormativity in colonial and postcolonial Nigeria-are central to its problematics and poetics. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and archival materials, including institutional records, personal letters, small publications, and other ephemera, Manzo illuminates the historical and material conditions that have placed limitations on the literary representation of women and sexual minorities and shaped the national masculine tradition of letters"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Crying in the wilderness : gender politics of Mbari
- Sublimations and shadows : sexual politics of Ibadan modernism in Black Orpheus
- Sexual foils and sexual others
- Trans-positioning genders in Efuru and Things Fall Apart
- Lesbian specters and apparitions : public discourses of woman-to-woman marriage in Nigeria
- Figures on the horizon : queer temporalities and epistemologies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781611865578
- 1611865573
- OCLC:
- 1525543250
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