{"product_id":"body-sexuality-and-gender-versions-and-subversions-in-african-literatures-1-9789042016262","title":"Body, Sexuality, and Gender: Versions and Subversions in African Literatures 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterary 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. Some of the authors treated in detail are: Ama Ata Aidoo, Mariama Bâ, Calixthe Beyala, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Bessie Head, Sheila Kohler, Flora Nwapa, Promise Okekwe, Yvonne Vera; André Brink, J.M. Coetzee, K. Sello Duiker, Nuruddin Farah, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Dambudzo Marechera, Arthur Nortje, Ben Okri, Shamim Sarif, and Williams Sassine. Contributors: Akachi Adimora--Ezeigbo , Susan Arndt, Unoma N. Azuah , Elleke Boehmer, Monica Bungaro , Lucy Valerie Graham , Jessica Hemmings, Sigrid G. Köhler , Martina Kopf , Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi , Marion Pape , Robert Muponde , Sarah Nuttall , Drew Shaw , Alioune Sow , Cheryl Stobie , Alexie Tcheuyap\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e”Die Vielfalt der vereinten Ansätze und analysierten Texte sowie das häufig selbst subversive Angehen von tabuisierten oder vernachlässigten Themen in der afrikanischen Literaturwissenschaft empfehlen diesen Sammelband als ein Standardwerk rund um die aktuellen Debatten zu Gender, Sexualität und dem Körper.” in: Bulletin – Info (Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien) 34, 2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Introduction Flora VEIT–WILD and Dirk NAGUSCHEWSKI: Lifting the Veil of Secrecy  GENDERED BODIES Chikwenye OKONJO–OGUNYEMI: Tête-à-tête With the Chief: Post-Womanist Discourse in Bessie Head’s Maru  Robert MUPONDE: Roots\/Routes: Place, Bodies and Sexuality in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning  Sigrid G. KÖHLER: Mad Body-Gifts: A Postcolonial Myth of Motherhood in Calixthe Beyala’s Tu t’appelleras Tanga  Monica BUNGARO: Male Feminist Fiction: Literary Subversions of a Gender-Biased Script  QUEERED BODIES Cheryl STOBIE: Between the Arches of Queer Desire and Race: Representing Bisexual Bodies in the Rainbow Nation  DREW SHAW: Queer Inclinations and Representations: Dambudzo Marechera and Zimbabwean Literature | Elleke BOEHMER: Versions of Yearning and Dissent: The Troping of Desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga  Unoma N. AZUAH: The Emerging Lesbian Voice in Nigerian Feminist Literature  Alexie TCHEUYAP: African Cinema and Representations of (Homo)Sexuality  TAINTED BODIES Susan ARNDT: Boundless Whiteness? Feminism and White Women in the Mirror of African Feminist Writing  Jessica HEMMINGS: Altered Surfaces. The Ambi Generation of Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name and Butterfly Burning  Sarah NUTTALL: Dark Anatomies in Arthur Nortje’s Poetry  Alioune SOW: Forbidden Bodies: Relocation and Empowerment in Williams Sassine’s Novels  VIOLATED BODIES Akachi ADIMORA–EZEIGBO: From the Horse’s Mouth: The Politics of Remembrance in Women’s Writing on the Nigerian Civil War  Marion PAPE: Nigerian War Literature by Women: From Civil War to Gender War  Martina KOPF: Writing Sexual Violence: Words and Silences in Yvonne Vera’s Under the Tongue  Lucy VALERIE GRAHAM: Reading the Unspeakable: Rape in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace  Notes on Contributors and Editors  Notes for Contributors","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210895712599,"sku":"9789042016262","price":97.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/body-sexuality-and-gender-versions-and-subversions-in-african-literatures-1-9789042016262","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}