{"product_id":"frottage-9781479865017","title":"Frottage","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner, 2020 Alan Bray Memorial Prize, given by the GL\/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new understanding of freedom in the black diaspora grounded in the erotic \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFrottage\u003c\/i\u003e, Keguro Macharia weaves together histories and theories of blackness and sexuality to generate a fundamentally new understanding of both the black diaspora and queer studies. Macharia maintains that to reach this understanding, we must start from the black diaspora, which requires re-thinking not only the historical and theoretical utility of identity categories such as gay, lesbian, and bisexual, but also more foundational categories such as normative and non-normative, human and non-human. Simultaneously, \u003ci\u003eFrottage\u003c\/i\u003e questions the heteronormative tropes through which the black diaspora has been imagined. Between Frantz Fanon, René Maran, Jomo Kenyatta, and Claude McKay, Macharia moves through genrespsychoanalysis, fiction, anthropology, poetryas well as r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrottage\u003c\/i\u003e takes you on a journey of mutual pleasure, queer potentials, intimacy, violence, and erotic freedom through the African and Afro-diaspora. Macharia delivers a layered, intellectually expansive, and necessary critical irritation for black queer studies. * zethy Matebeni, curator and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eReclaiming Afrikan\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrottage\u003c\/i\u003e is an important and field-changing book. One of Keguro Macharia’s great talents is to guide us to a way to understand, read, and think differently about kinship, about gender, about ‘thinghood,’ and about intimacy. Macharia is a profoundly original thinker and writer and in \u003ci\u003eFrottage\u003c\/i\u003e he renders and imagines diaspora in ways that attend beautifully to a range of world-making practices, to geo-histories and discontinuities. The final chapter, both meditation and invitation, is a gift. * Christina Sharpe, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Wake\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrottage \u003c\/i\u003eraises fundamental questions about ways of seeing and living sexual difference – in this case queer sexuality – in a world that by virtue of its language, expectations, actions and general beliefs, tends to homogenise sexuality in a heteronormative sense. [...] Keguro is searching for how to articulate ‘queer’ in an African and Afrodiasporic world that disavows not just the practice but the very word and identity. * Wasafiri Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrottage\u003c\/i\u003e is an important addition to theoretical work that makes it possible to think about black and queer subjectivities in Africa and the African diaspora. * Tydskrif vir Letterkunde *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409083572567,"sku":"9781479865017","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479865017.jpg?v=1730505381","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/frottage-9781479865017","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}