”Die Vielfalt der vereinten Ansätze und analysierten Texte sowie das häufig selbst subversive Angehen von tabuisierten oder vernachlässigten Themen in der afrikanischen Literaturwissenschaft empfehlen diesen Sammelband als ein Standardwerk rund um die aktuellen Debatten zu Gender, Sexualität und dem Körper.” in: Bulletin – Info (Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien) 34, 2007

• Acknowledgements IntroductionFlora VEIT–WILD and Dirk NAGUSCHEWSKI: Lifting the Veil of Secrecy GENDERED BODIESChikwenye OKONJO–OGUNYEMI: Tête-à-tête With the Chief: Post-Womanist Discourse in Bessie Head’s Maru Robert MUPONDE: Roots/Routes: Place, Bodies and Sexuality in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning Sigrid G. KÖHLER: Mad Body-Gifts: A Postcolonial Myth of Motherhood in Calixthe Beyala’s Tu t’appelleras Tanga Monica BUNGARO: Male Feminist Fiction: Literary Subversions of a Gender-Biased Script QUEERED BODIESCheryl STOBIE: Between the Arches of Queer Desire and Race: Representing Bisexual Bodies in the Rainbow Nation DREW SHAW: Queer Inclinations and Representations: Dambudzo Marechera and Zimbabwean Literature |Elleke BOEHMER: Versions of Yearning and Dissent: The Troping of Desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga Unoma N. AZUAH: The Emerging Lesbian Voice in Nigerian Feminist Literature Alexie TCHEUYAP: African Cinema and Representations of (Homo)Sexuality TAINTED BODIESSusan ARNDT: Boundless Whiteness? Feminism and White Women in the Mirror of African Feminist Writing Jessica HEMMINGS: Altered Surfaces. The Ambi Generation of Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name and Butterfly Burning Sarah NUTTALL: Dark Anatomies in Arthur Nortje’s Poetry Alioune SOW: Forbidden Bodies: Relocation and Empowerment in Williams Sassine’s Novels VIOLATED BODIESAkachi ADIMORA–EZEIGBO: From the Horse’s Mouth: The Politics of Remembrance in Women’s Writing on the Nigerian Civil War Marion PAPE: Nigerian War Literature by Women: From Civil War to Gender War Martina KOPF: Writing Sexual Violence: Words and Silences in Yvonne Vera’s Under the Tongue Lucy VALERIE GRAHAM: Reading the Unspeakable: Rape in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Notes on Contributors and Editors Notes for Contributors

”Die Vielfalt der vereinten Ansätze und analysierten Texte sowie das häufig selbst subversive Angehen von tabuisierten oder vernachlässigten Themen in der afrikanischen Literaturwissenschaft empfehlen diesen Sammelband als ein Standardwerk rund um die aktuellen Debatten zu Gender, Sexualität und dem Körper.” in: Bulletin – Info (Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien) 34, 2007

• Acknowledgements IntroductionFlora VEIT–WILD and Dirk NAGUSCHEWSKI: Lifting the Veil of Secrecy GENDERED BODIESChikwenye OKONJO–OGUNYEMI: Tête-à-tête With the Chief: Post-Womanist Discourse in Bessie Head’s Maru Robert MUPONDE: Roots/Routes: Place, Bodies and Sexuality in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning Sigrid G. KÖHLER: Mad Body-Gifts: A Postcolonial Myth of Motherhood in Calixthe Beyala’s Tu t’appelleras Tanga Monica BUNGARO: Male Feminist Fiction: Literary Subversions of a Gender-Biased Script QUEERED BODIESCheryl STOBIE: Between the Arches of Queer Desire and Race: Representing Bisexual Bodies in the Rainbow Nation DREW SHAW: Queer Inclinations and Representations: Dambudzo Marechera and Zimbabwean Literature |Elleke BOEHMER: Versions of Yearning and Dissent: The Troping of Desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga Unoma N. AZUAH: The Emerging Lesbian Voice in Nigerian Feminist Literature Alexie TCHEUYAP: African Cinema and Representations of (Homo)Sexuality TAINTED BODIESSusan ARNDT: Boundless Whiteness? Feminism and White Women in the Mirror of African Feminist Writing Jessica HEMMINGS: Altered Surfaces. The Ambi Generation of Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name and Butterfly Burning Sarah NUTTALL: Dark Anatomies in Arthur Nortje’s Poetry Alioune SOW: Forbidden Bodies: Relocation and Empowerment in Williams Sassine’s Novels VIOLATED BODIESAkachi ADIMORA–EZEIGBO: From the Horse’s Mouth: The Politics of Remembrance in Women’s Writing on the Nigerian Civil War Marion PAPE: Nigerian War Literature by Women: From Civil War to Gender War Martina KOPF: Writing Sexual Violence: Words and Silences in Yvonne Vera’s Under the Tongue Lucy VALERIE GRAHAM: Reading the Unspeakable: Rape in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Notes on Contributors and Editors Notes for Contributors

”Die Vielfalt der vereinten Ansätze und analysierten Texte sowie das häufig selbst subversive Angehen von tabuisierten oder vernachlässigten Themen in der afrikanischen Literaturwissenschaft empfehlen diesen Sammelband als ein Standardwerk rund um die aktuellen Debatten zu Gender, Sexualität und dem Körper.” in: Bulletin – Info (Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien) 34, 2007

• Acknowledgements IntroductionFlora VEIT–WILD and Dirk NAGUSCHEWSKI: Lifting the Veil of Secrecy GENDERED BODIESChikwenye OKONJO–OGUNYEMI: Tête-à-tête With the Chief: Post-Womanist Discourse in Bessie Head’s Maru Robert MUPONDE: Roots/Routes: Place, Bodies and Sexuality in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning Sigrid G. KÖHLER: Mad Body-Gifts: A Postcolonial Myth of Motherhood in Calixthe Beyala’s Tu t’appelleras Tanga Monica BUNGARO: Male Feminist Fiction: Literary Subversions of a Gender-Biased Script QUEERED BODIESCheryl STOBIE: Between the Arches of Queer Desire and Race: Representing Bisexual Bodies in the Rainbow Nation DREW SHAW: Queer Inclinations and Representations: Dambudzo Marechera and Zimbabwean Literature |Elleke BOEHMER: Versions of Yearning and Dissent: The Troping of Desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga Unoma N. AZUAH: The Emerging Lesbian Voice in Nigerian Feminist Literature Alexie TCHEUYAP: African Cinema and Representations of (Homo)Sexuality TAINTED BODIESSusan ARNDT: Boundless Whiteness? Feminism and White Women in the Mirror of African Feminist Writing Jessica HEMMINGS: Altered Surfaces. The Ambi Generation of Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name and Butterfly Burning Sarah NUTTALL: Dark Anatomies in Arthur Nortje’s Poetry Alioune SOW: Forbidden Bodies: Relocation and Empowerment in Williams Sassine’s Novels VIOLATED BODIESAkachi ADIMORA–EZEIGBO: From the Horse’s Mouth: The Politics of Remembrance in Women’s Writing on the Nigerian Civil War Marion PAPE: Nigerian War Literature by Women: From Civil War to Gender War Martina KOPF: Writing Sexual Violence: Words and Silences in Yvonne Vera’s Under the Tongue Lucy VALERIE GRAHAM: Reading the Unspeakable: Rape in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Notes on Contributors and Editors Notes for Contributors