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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoad, Neville Wallace, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9780816698981

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