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Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana - Couverture souple

Otu, Kwame Edwin

 
9780520381858: Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520381858 ISBN 13 : 9780520381858
Editeur : University of California Press, 2022

Synopsis

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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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kwame Edwin Otu is Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, University of Virginia. He wrote and starred in the award-winning short film Reluctantly Queer.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520381858
ISBN 13 
9780520381858
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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