ISBN:
9781478025498
,
9781478020714
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 235 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Williams, Elizabeth W., 1986- Primitive normativity
Keywords:
Sex customs History
;
Sex customs Colonies
;
History
;
Men, White Sexual behavior
;
Colonies
;
History
;
Indigenous peoples Colonies
;
History
;
Race discrimination
;
HISTORY / Africa / East
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
;
Colonialism & imperialism
;
Gender Studies: Gruppen
;
Gender studies, gender groups
;
African history
;
Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
;
POL045000
;
POL053000
;
Politics & government
;
Politik und Staat
;
Afrikanische Geschichte
;
Great Britain Colonies
;
Race relations
;
History
;
Great Britain Colonies
;
Kenya Race relations
;
Kenia
;
Kenya
Abstract:
"In Primitive Normativity Elizabeth W. Williams traces the genealogy of a distinct narrative about African sexuality that British colonial authorities in Kenya used to justify their control over African populations. She identifies a discourse of "primitive normativity" that suggested that Kenyan Africans were too close to nature to develop the forms of sexual neuroses and practices such as hysteria, homosexuality, and prostitution that were supposedly common among Europeans. Primitive normativity framed Kenyan African sexuality as less sexually polluted than that of the more deviant populations who colonized them. Williams shows that colonial officials and settlers used this narrative to further the goals of white supremacy by arguing that Africans' sexuality was proof that Africans must be protected from the forces of urbanization, Western-style education, and political participation, lest they be exposed to forms of civilized sexual deviance. Challenging the more familiar notion that Europeans universally viewed Africans as hypersexualized, Williams demonstrates how narratives of African sexual normativity, rather than deviance, reinforced ideas about the evolutionary backwardness of African peoples and their inability to govern themselves"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Primitive Normativity -- The Intellectual Roots of Primitive Normativity -- Sleeping Dictionaries and Mobile Metropoles: Female (A)Sexuality in the Silberrad Scandal of 1908 -- "Stoop Low to Conquer": Primitive Normativity and Trusteeship in the Kenyan "Indian Crisis" of 1923 -- White Peril: Rape, Race, and Contamination -- Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange's Kenyan Novels -- Eating the Other: Erotic Consumption in Anti-Mau Mau Discourse.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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