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Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume. Arguing that it is impossible to understand African cultural productions without knowledge of the structures of production, distribution, and reception that surround them, the essays grapple with the shifting notion of what "African" means when many African authors and filmmakers no longer live or work in Africa. While the arts continue to flourish in Africa, addressing questions about marginalization, what is center and what periphery, what traditional or conservative, and what progressive or modern requires an expansive view of creative production.
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Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume. Arguing that it is impossible to understand African cultural productions without knowledge of the structures of production, distribution, and reception that surround them, the essays grapple with the shifting notion of what "African" means when many African authors and filmmakers no longer live or work in Africa. While the arts continue to flourish in Africa, addressing questions about marginalization, what is center and what periphery, what traditional or conservative, and what progressive or modern requires an expansive view of creative production.
Race and Sex across the French Atlantic
The Color of Black in Literary, Philosophical and Theater Discourse
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
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Jean Genet's masterpiece Les Nègres was first published in 1958, in the midst of the Algerian war, and first performed at the Théâtre de Lutèce in Paris in October 1959. Yet even though the play is more than 50 years old, it remains a fundamental contribution to critical race theory, as Genet unequivocally posits that no matter what a black person does or doesn't do, simply to be black in our times is itself a tragedy. Placing Genet in the context of Negritude movement, Race and Sex across the French Atlantic equally reveals and examines blackness within the African-American dialogue with a white French author's provocative questions about race: "Is a black man always black?" and even more fundamentally, "What is blackness?" Within this framework, to question "blackness," therefore, is to set out on an ontological quest, as "blackness" has become a real, living thing in its own right within European ideology, social theory, and historical consciousness, even as Les Nègres has taken its place as a major text in the francophone and philosophical tradition of writing on race. In essence, this book concentrates on the way in which language-particularly the French language-has shaped ideas about race within transatlantic discourses, and, with its companion, continental philosophy, has also shaped the historical understanding of discourse on race. It navigates between multiple readings of race within the French Atlantic using Lorraine Hansberry's play Les Blancs; Dany Laferrière's Comment faire l'amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer; Genet's dialogue with the Black Panthers; and different conceptions of the so-called N word.Race and Sex across the French Atlantic thus explores how Les Nègres offered a groundbreaking reading of how race functioned-and continues to function-as an all-pervasive discourse that provides a central principle around which society in general is organized. The play stages a deeply self-reflexive and critical examination of the very essence of
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Absinthe: World Literature in Translation
Volume 26: Vibrate! Resounding the Frequencies of Africana in Translation
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
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Don't Whisper Too Much was the first work of fiction by an African writer to present love stories between African women in a positive light. Bona Mbella is the second. In presenting the emotional and romantic lives of gay, African women, Ekotto comments upon larger issues that affect these women, including Africa as a post-colonial space, the circulation of knowledge, and the question of who writes history. In recounting the beauty and complexity of relationships between women who love women, Ekotto inscribes these stories within African history, both past and present. Don't Whisper Too Much follows young village girl Ada's quest to write her story on her own terms, outside of heteronormative history. Bona Mbella focuses upon the life of a young woman from a poor neighborhood in an African megalopolis. And "Panè," a love story, brings the many themes from Don't Whisper Much and Bona Mbella together as it explores how emotional and sexual connections between women have the power to transform, even in the face of great humiliation and suffering. Each story in the collection addresses how female sexuality is often marked by violence, and yet is also a place for emotional connection, pleasure and agency. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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Don't Whisper Too Much was the first work of fiction by an African writer to present love stories between African women in a positive light. Bona Mbella is the second. In presenting the emotional and romantic lives of gay, African women, Ekotto comments upon larger issues that affect these women, including Africa as a post-colonial space, the circulation of knowledge, and the question of who writes history. In recounting the beauty and complexity of relationships between women who love women, Ekotto inscribes these stories within African history, both past and present. Don't Whisper Too Much follows young village girl Ada's quest to write her story on her own terms, outside of heteronormative history. Bona Mbella focuses upon the life of a young woman from a poor neighborhood in an African megalopolis. And "Panè," a love story, brings the many themes from Don't Whisper Much and Bona Mbella together as it explores how emotional and sexual connections between women have the power to transform, even in the face of great humiliation and suffering. Each story in the collection addresses how female sexuality is often marked by violence, and yet is also a place for emotional connection, pleasure and agency. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
281 kr
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At the Ndola Muto Salon Douala, Cameroon, women slip behind closed doors to seek pleasure, refuge, and one another. When young Violette begins work there as a courtesan for women to support her family, she enters a world her mother cannot accept, where desire moves quietly but powerfully. Part sanctuary, part hidden house of pleasure, the salon becomes a mirror of empowerment, longing, and possibility beyond the restrictions of Cameroonian society. Within its walls, Violette encounters a constellation of women who shape her awakening: Lady Budu, the formidable owner; Caroline, who first opens her to joy; and the enigmatic Lady with Sexy Toes, who urges her to imagine a life of her own making. As these lives intertwine in this evocative novel, the salon reveals how tenderness between women can become an act of resistance, defying patriarchy, class, and convention in small but profound revolutions.Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
1 248 kr
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At the Ndola Muto Salon Douala, Cameroon, women slip behind closed doors to seek pleasure, refuge, and one another. When young Violette begins work there as a courtesan for women to support her family, she enters a world her mother cannot accept, where desire moves quietly but powerfully. Part sanctuary, part hidden house of pleasure, the salon becomes a mirror of empowerment, longing, and possibility beyond the restrictions of Cameroonian society. Within its walls, Violette encounters a constellation of women who shape her awakening: Lady Budu, the formidable owner; Caroline, who first opens her to joy; and the enigmatic Lady with Sexy Toes, who urges her to imagine a life of her own making. As these lives intertwine in this evocative novel, the salon reveals how tenderness between women can become an act of resistance, defying patriarchy, class, and convention in small but profound revolutions.Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.