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Amphibious subjects: sasso and the contested politics of queer self-making in neoliberal Ghana

Objektkategorie:
Elektronische Ressource
Person/Institution:
Otu, Kwame Edwin
Bereitstellende Institution:
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Verlag:
University of California Press
Ort:
Oakland, California
Entstehungszeit:
[2022]
Sprache:
Englisch
Abstract:
"Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men-known in local parlance as sasso-residing in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye's notion of "amphibious personhood," Kwame Edwin Otu argues that sasso embody and articulate amphibious subjectivity in their self-making, creating an identity that moves beyond the homogenizing impulses of western categories of gender and sexuality. Such subjectivity simultaneously unsettles claims purported by the Christian heteronationalist state and LGBT+ human rights organizations that Ghana is predominantly heterosexual or homophobic. Weaving together personal interactions with sasso, participant observation, autoethnography, archival sources, essays from African and African-diasporic literature, and critical analyses of documentaries such as the BBC's The World's Worst Place to Be Gay, Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic meditation on how Africa is configured as the "heart of homophobic darkness" in transnational LGBT+ human rights imaginaries"--
Objekttext:
Kwame Edwin Otu
Includes bibliographical references and index
Inhalt:
Introducing amphibious subjects -- Situating sasso: mapping effeminate subjectivities and homoerotic desire in postcolonial Ghana -- Contesting homogeneity : Sasso complexity in the face of neoliberal LGBT+ politics -- Amphibious subjectivity : queer self-making at the intersection of colliding and colluding modernities -- The paradox of rituals : queer possibilities in heteronormative scenes -- Palimpsestic projects : hetero-colonial missions in post-independent Ghana (1965-1975) -- Queer liberal expeditions : The BBC's "the world's worst place to be gay?" and the paradoxes of homo-colonialism -- Conclusion : queering queer Africa?

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Datensatz angelegt am:
2023-04-12
Zuletzt geändert am:
2022-11-03
In Portal übernommen am:
2023-04-12

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