ISBN:
9780520381865
,
0520381866
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
New sexual worlds 2
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Otu, Kwame Edwin, 1983- Amphibious subjects
DDC:
306.7609667
Keywords:
Sexual minority community
;
Effeminacy
;
Human rights Anthropological aspects
;
Sexual minorities
;
Gender identity
;
Homosexuality
;
Minorités sexuelles - Ghāna - Accra
;
Identité sexuelle - Ghāna - Accra
;
Homosexualité - Ghāna - Accra
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ Studies / Bisexual Studies
;
Effeminacy
;
Gender identity
;
Homosexuality
;
Human rights - Anthropological aspects
;
Sexual minorities
;
Sexual minority community
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
;
Ghana - Accra
Abstract:
"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," Kwame Edwin Otu argues that sasso embody and articulate amphibious subjectivity in their self-making, creating an identity that moves beyond the homogenizing impulses of western categories of gender and sexuality. Such subjectivity simultaneously unsettles claims purported by the Christian heteronationalist state and LGBT+ human rights organizations that Ghana is predominantly heterosexual or homophobic. Weaving together personal interactions with sasso, participant observation, autoethnography, archival sources, essays from African and African-diasporic literature, and critical analyses of documentaries such as the BBC's The World's Worst Place to Be Gay, Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic meditation on how Africa is configured as the "heart of homophobic darkness" in transnational LGBT+ human rights imaginaries"--
Description / 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 -- 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 homo-colonialism -- Conclusion : queering queer Africa?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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