![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through a close reading of a selection of texts from these three countries, this thesis takes a cultural-historical approach to exploring the complex struggles engaged in by queer people in Africa to protections under the law, and to represent themselves in literary and cinematic narratives. Date Type Master's theses Type text Identifier Identifier vital:44651 Description This thesis contests the notion that nonnormative sexualities are ‘un-African’ by examining a range of representations of queer African lives on film and in literature, produced by Africans for Africans, as a means to interrogate the role played by the interconnected histories of colonialism, religion, and the policing of queer intimacy, specifically in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. ![]() Sexual minorities Nigeria Social conditions Date Issued Sexual minorities Kenya Social conditions Subject Sexual minorities South Africa Social conditions Subject Sexual minorities Nigeria Public opinion Subject Sexual minorities Kenya Public opinion Subject Sexual minorities South Africa Public opinion Subject Motion pictures, African History and criticism Subject Sexual minorities in motion pictures SubjectĪfrican literature History and criticism Subject Title Queer as Africa: Representations of queer lives in selected Nigerian, Kenyan, and South African literature and film Creator ![]()
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