African Intimacies : Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization /

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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 Òhomosexu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hoad, Neville Wallace, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politics and government
Manners and customs.
Homosexuality.
HIV infections.
Gays.
AIDS (Disease)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
Infections à VIH > Afrique.
Sida > Afrique.
Homosexuels > Afrique > Histoire.
Homosexualite > Afrique.
HIV infections > Africa.
AIDS (Disease) > Africa.
Gays > Africa > History.
Homosexuality > Africa.
Africa.
Afrique > Politique et gouvernement.
Afrique > Moeurs et coutumes.
Africa > Politics and government.
Africa > Social life and customs.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9780816698981

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