Inhalt: | In Le Queer Impérial Julin Everett explores the taboo subject of male homoerotic desire between black Africans and white Europeans in francophone colonial and postcolonial literatures. Introduction: Passages à l'acte : political and textual violence in Francophone colonial and postcolonial literatures -- Colonial sexting : homoerotic voyeurism in La femme et l'homme nu by Pierre Mille and André Demaison, and Makako, singe d'Afrique by Herman Grégoire -- "Entre hommes et sous l'équateur" : colonial masculinity, race and desire in Makako, singe d'Afrique -- Nothing but a thing : the African male as fetishist and fetish in La femme et l'homme nu -- Loving the alien : rape of the African immigré in Ousmane Sembène's Le docker noir and Saidou Bokoum's Chaine -- Is looking merely the opposite of doing? : rape and representation in Le docker noir -- "L'homme de couleur et le blanc" : interracial desire and the fear of the queer in Chaine -- Civil servant whores and neocolonial slum-johns in Sony Labou Tansi's Je, soussigné cardiaque and Williams Sassine's Mémoire d'une peau -- The space between : bisexuality, intersexuality, albinism and the postcolonial state in Mémoire d'une peau -- Must la victime be feminine? postcolonial violence, gender ambiguity and homoerotic desire in Sony Labou Tansi's Je, soussigné cardiaque. |
