City Libraries, City of Gold Coast

Queer theory in film & fiction, editor, Ernest N. Emenyonu ; assitant editor, Patricia T. Emenyonu ; associate editors, Adeleke Adeeko [and eight others] ; reviews editor, Obi Nwakanma

eng

Includes bibliographical references

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Queer theory in film & fiction

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editor, Ernest N. Emenyonu ; assitant editor, Patricia T. Emenyonu ; associate editors, Adeleke Adeeko [and eight others] ; reviews editor, Obi Nwakanma

African literature today, 36

"Debates on the future of the African continent and the role of gender identities in these visions are increasingly present in literary criticism forums as African writers become bolder in exploring the challenges they face and celebrating gender diversity in the writing of short stories, novels, poetry, plays and films. Controversies over the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer (LGBTIQ) communities in Africa, as elsewhere, continue in the context of criminalization and/or intimidation of these groups. Residual colonial moralizing and contemporary western identity norms and politics vie with longstanding polyvalent indigenous sexual expression. In addition to traditional media, the new social media have gained importance, both as sources of information exchange and as sites of virtual construction of gender identities. As with many such contentious issues, the variety of responses to the "state of the question" is strikingly visible across the continent. In this issue of ALT, guest editor John Hawley has sampled the ongoing conversations, in both African writing and in the analysis of contemporary African cinema, to show how queer studies can break with old concepts and theories and point the way to new gender perspectives on literary and cinematic output. This volume also includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement." -- Publisher's description

Editorial Article. Desiring Africans: An Introduction / John C. Hawley -- Articles. Visual Activism: A Look at the Documentary Born This Way / Unoma Azuah -- African Queer, African Digital: Reflections on Zanele Muholi's Films4peace & Other Works / Naminata Diabate -- To Revolutionary Type Love: An Interview with Kawira Mwirichia, Neo Musangi, Mal Muga, Awuor Onyango, Faith Wanjala & Wawira Njeru / Ng'ang'a Muchiri -- Liminal Spaces & Conflicts of Culture in South African Queer Films: Inxeba(The Wound) / Grant Andrews -- Gay, African, Middle-Class & Fabulous: Writing Queerness in New Writing from Nigeria & South Africa / Shola Adenekan -- The City as a Metaphor of Safe Queer Experimentation in Monica Arac de Nyeko's 'Jambula Tree' & Beatrice Lamwaka's 'Pillar of Love' / Edgar Nabutanyi -- Homosexuality & the Postcolonial Idea: Notes from Kabelo Sello Duiker's The Quiet Violence of Dreams / Ives S. Loukson --^A Warm, Woolly Silence: Rethinking Silence through T.O Molefe's 'Lower Main' & Monica Arac de Nyeko's 'Jambula Tree' / Robert LaRue -- Breaking/Voicing the Silence: Diriye Osman's Fairy Tales for Lost Children / Asuncion Aragon -- Reading for Ruptures: HIV & AIDS, Sexuality & Silencing in Zoe Wicomb's 'In Search of Tommie' / Lizzy Attree -- Queer Temporalities & Epistemologies of Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows & Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees / Kerry Manzo -- Dilemma of an African Woman Faced with Bisexuality: A Reading of Armand Meula's Coq male, coq femelle / Stella Onome Omonigho -- Featured Articles. African Oral Literature & the Environment / Ndubuisi Osuagwu -- 'From the Street to the World of Art': Writing Women's Liberation in Nawal El Saadawi's Zeina / Simone James Alexander -- Literary Supplement. Pregnancy in the Time of Ebola (short story) / M'Bha Kamara -- Okonkwo's Revenge (short story) / Pede Hollist -- Guilt (short story) / Chioma Duruaku --^Tribute. Ben Obumselu (1930-2017): Pioneer African Literary Critic / Isidore Diala -- Reviews. Ezra Chitando & Adriaan van Klinken, eds, Christianity and Controversies over Homosexuality in Contemporary Africa; and Adriaan van Klinken & Ezra Chitando, eds, Public Religion and the Politics of Homosexuality in Africa / John C. Hawley -- Chantal Zabus, Out in Africa: Same-sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures & Cultures / John C. Hawley -- Unoma Azuah, Blessed Body: The Secret Lives of Nigerian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender / Iniobong I. Uko -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions / Nonye C. Ahumibe -- Razinat T. Mohammed, The Travails of a First Wife / Nonye C. Ahumibe -- Efe Farinre, Folk Tales are Forever / Nonye C. Ahumibe -- M. J. Simms-Maddox, Priscilla: Engaging in the Game of Politics / Petrolina Ifeoma Kpanah -- Uzodinma Iweala, Speak No Evil / Obi Nwakanma

Queer theory in film and fiction