Amphibious Subjects : Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana

Amphibious Subjects Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Otu, Kwame Edwin, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press 2022
[2022]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:New Sexual Worlds Series
Materias:
Effeminacy > Ghana > Accra.
Gender identity > Ghana > Accra.
Homosexuality > Ghana > Accra.
Human rights > Anthropological aspects > Ghana > Accra.
Sexual minorities > Ghana > Accra.
Sexual minority community > Ghana > Accra.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
sasso
ethnography
men
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introducing Amphibious Subjects
  • Part One Setting the Scenes
  • 1. Situating Sasso: Mapping Effeminate Subjectivities and Homoerotic Desire in Postcolonial Ghana
  • 2. Contesting Homogeneity: Sasso Complexity in the Face of Neoliberal LGBT+ Politics
  • Part Two Amphibious Subjects in Rival Geographies
  • 3. Amphibious Subjectivity: Queer Self-Making at the Intersection of Colliding Modernities in Neoliberal Ghana
  • 4. The Paradox of Rituals: Queer Possibilities in Heteronormative Scenes
  • Part Three. Becoming and Unbecoming Amphibious Subjects in Hetero/Homo Colonial Vortices
  • 5. Palimpsestic Projects: Heterocolonial Missions in Post-Independent Ghana (1965–1975)
  • 6. Queer Liberal Expeditions: The BBC’s The World’s Worst Place to Be Gay? and the Paradoxes of Homocolonialism
  • Conclusion: Queering Queer Africa?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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