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Amphibious subjects : sasso and the contested politics of queer self-making in neoliberal Ghana /

"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,&...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Otu, Kwame Edwin, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Series:New sexual worlds ; 2.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introducing amphibious subjects
  • Situating sasso : mapping effeminate subjectivities and homoerotic desire in postcolonial Ghana
  • Contesting homogeneity : sasso complexity in the face of neoliberal LGBT+ politics
  • Amphibious subjectivity : queer self-making at the intersection of colliding and colluding modernities in neoliberal Ghana
  • The paradox of rituals : queer possibilities in heteronormative scenes
  • Palimpsestic projects : hetero-colonial missions in post-independent Ghana (1965-1975)
  • Queer liberal expeditions : the BBC's "The world's worst place to be gay?" and the paradoxes of homocolonialism
  • Conclusion : queering queer Africa?