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Author Hoad, Neville Wallace, 1966-

Title African intimacies : race, homosexuality, and globalization / Neville Hoad
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 187 pages)
Contents African sodomy in the missionary position : corporeal intimacies and signifying regimes -- Decolonizing the body : the African and African American in Wole Soyinka's The interpreters -- Neoliberalism and the church : the World Conference of Anglican Bishops -- White man's burden, white man's disease : tracking lesbian and gay human rights -- The intellectual, the archive, and the pandemic : Thabo Mbeki's AIDS blues -- An elegy for African cosmopolitanism : Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to our Hillbrow
Summary There have been few book-length engagements with the question of sexuality in Africa, let alone African homosexuality. African Intimacies simultaneously responds to the public debate on the ÒAfricannessÓ of homosexuality and interrogates the meaningfulness of the terms ÒsexualityÓ and ÒhomosexualityÓ outside Euro-American discourse. Speculating on cultural practices interpreted by missionaries as sodomy and resistance to colonialism, Neville Hoad begins by analyzing the 1886 Bugandan martyrs incidentÑthe execution of thirty men in the royal court. Then, in a series of close readings, he addres
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-177) and index
Notes English
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Subject Homosexuality -- Africa
Gay people -- Africa -- History
AIDS (Disease) -- Africa
HIV infections -- Africa
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
AIDS (Disease)
Gay people
HIV infections
Homosexuality
Manners and customs
Politics and government
SUBJECT Africa -- Social life and customs
Africa -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001570
Subject Africa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816698981
0816698988