ISBN:
9789004365537
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 212 Seiten
Series Statement:
Francopolyphonies volume 24
Series Statement:
Francopolyphonies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Everett, Julin Le queer impérial
DDC:
840.9/896
Keywords:
French literature History and criticism
;
Homosexuality in literature
;
Race in literature
;
Colonies in literature
;
Postcolonialism in literature
;
French literature History and criticism
;
French-speaking countries
;
Homosexuality in literature
;
Race in literature
;
Colonies in literature
;
Postcolonialism in literature
;
Frankophones Afrika
;
Queer
;
Literatur
;
Frankophones Afrika
;
Queer
;
Literatur
;
Sembène, Ousmane 1923-2007
;
Bokoum, Saïdou 1945-
;
Sony Labou Tansi 1947-1995
;
Sassine, Williams 1944-1997
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
