Body, sexuality, and gender - Veit-Wild, Flora, 1947-; Naguschewski, Dirk. (New York, NY : Rodopi, 2005)
Lifting the veil of secrecy / Flora Veit-Wild and Dirk Naguschewski -- Gendered bodies: Têtê-à-tête with the chief: post-womanist discourse in Bessie Head's Maru / Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi ; Roots/routes: place, bodies and sexuality in Yvonne Vera's Butterfly burning / Robert Muponde ; Mad body-gifts: a postcolonial myth of motherhood in Calixthe Beyala's Tu t'appelleras tanga / Sigrid G. Köhler ; Male feminist fiction: literary subversions of a gender-biased script / Monica Bungaro -- Queered bodies: between the arches of queer desire and race: representing bisexual bodies in the Rainbow Nation / Cheryl Stobie ; Queer inclinations and representations: Dambudzo Marechera and Zimbabwean literature / Drew Shaw ; versions of yearning and dissent: the troping of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga / Elleke Boehmer ; The emerging lesbian in Nigerian feminist literature / Unoma N. Azuah ; African cinema and representations of (homo)sexuality / Alexie Tcheuyap -- Tainted bodies: Boundless whiteness? feminism and white women in the mirror of African feminist writing / Susan Arndt ; Altered surfaces: the Ambi Generation of Yvonne Vera's Without a name and Butterfly burning / Jessica Hemmings ; Dark anatomies in Arthur Nortje's poetry / Sarah Nuttall ; Forbidden bodies: relocation and empowerment in Williams Sassine's novels / Alioune Sow -- Violated bodies: From the horse's mouth: the politics of remembrance in women's writing on the Nigerian Civil War / Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo ; Nigerian war literature by women: from civil war to gender war / Marion Pape ; Writing sexual violence: words and silences in Yvonne Vera's Under the tongue / Martina Kopr ; Reading the unspeakable: rape in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace -- Notes on contributors and editors.
Most of the essays in this volume originated at the international conference "Versions & Subversions in African Literatures," which took place in Berlin in May 2003.
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Keywords: Sex in literature -- Congresses; Human body in literature -- Congresses; African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Homosexuality in literature -- Congresses; Feminism in literature -- Congresses; Sexualité dans la littérature -- Congrès.; Corps humain dans la littérature -- Congrès.; Littérature africaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique -- Congrès.; Homosexualité dans la littérature -- Congrès.; Féminisme dans la littérature -- Congrès.; TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM -- General; African literature; Feminism in literature; Homosexuality in literature; Human body in literature; Sex in literature; 1900-1999; Conference papers and proceedings; Criticism, interpretation, etc