Body, sexuality, and gender

by Naguschewski, Dirk Veit-Wild, Flora

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Title Statements

Full title :Body, sexuality, and gender / edited by Flora Veit-Wild & Dirk Naguschewski.

Summary

"Literary representations of the body from Africa as well as narrative strategies of writing the body have only recently begun to receive wider critical attention. The reflections on body, sexuality, and gender in African literary texts brought together in this volume do not consider these three terms as separate entities but instead as closely related to each other, each term questioning the other: bodies and sexualities that are transgressing concepts of gender, gender that is probing body and sexuality. With regard to Africa, the three concepts form a particularly contested space, because body and sexuality are not only subjected to power relations in terms of gender, but also in terms of race, ethnicity, and the legacy of colonialism." "While the sections "Gifted Bodies" and "Queered Bodies" show new developments in viewing body and sexuality as creative powers, the sections "Tainted Bodies" and "Violated Bodies" comprise essays that investigate the exposure of the body to physical aggression and other traumatic experiences."--BOOK JACKET.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Rodopi
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

Notes

Most of the essays in this volume originated at the international conference "Versions & Subversions in African Literatures," which took place in Berlin in May 2003.

The Physical Object

Description:xix, 274 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9042016264, 9789042016262
oclc:ocm61500596
LC Classification:PL8010
Dewey Decimal:809.8896

Lifting the veil of secrecy / Flora Veit-Wild and Dirk Naguschewski -- Gendered bodies. Têtê-à-tête with the chief : post-womanist discourse in Bessie Head's Maru / Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi ; Roots/routes : place, bodies and sexuality in Yvonne Vera's Butterfly burning / Robert Muponde ; Mad body-gifts : a postcolonial myth of motherhood in Calixthe Beyala's Tu t'appelleras tanga / Sigrid G. Köhler ; Male feminist fiction : literary subversions of a gender-biased script / Monica Bungaro -- Queered bodies. Between the arches of queer desire and race : representing bisexual bodies in the Rainbow Nation / Cheryl Stobie ; Queer inclinations and representations : Dambudzo Marechera and Zimbabwean literature / Drew Shaw ; Versions of yearning and dissent : the troping of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga / Elleke Boehmer ; The emerging lesbian in Nigerian feminist literature / Unoma N. Azuah ; African cinema and representations of (homo)sexuality / Alexie Tcheuyap -- Tainted bodies. Boundless whiteness? : feminism and white women in the mirror of African feminist writing / Susan Arndt ; Altered surfaces : the Ambi Generation of Yvonne Vera's Without a name and Butterfly burn…

Subjects

African literature African literature -- Congresses. -- Hi… Conference papers and proceedings Congresses Corps humain dans la littérature -- Con… Criticism, interpretation, etc Feminism in literature Feminism in literature -- Congresses Féminisme dans la littérature -- Congrès Homosexualité dans la littérature -- Co… Homosexuality in literature Homosexuality in literature -- Congress… Human body in literature Human body in literature -- Congresses Littérature africaine -- Congrès. -- Hi… Sex in literature Sex in literature -- Congresses Sexualité dans la littérature -- Congrès