Description: ALT 36 turns a "queer eye" on Africa, offering provocative (re-)readings of texts to position formerly erased sexualities and contemporary sexual expression among Africans on the continent, and abroad.
Brief description: ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).
Review Quotes: Hawley's introduction, which sets the tone of the book, opens with a quote by Robert Mugabe on homosexuality, clearly highlighting the political agenda behind the edition-resistance to forms of erasure and enclosure that plague queer lives in Africa. By historicizing an intermedial, intersectional contemporary resistance in the creation of African queer identities, the book fulfills this agenda and opens valuable intersections and counter-publics for the future of queer visibility.-- "RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES"