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Working Class Homosexuality in South African History provides the
first scholarly outline for the development of a narrative of
same-sex working class African men. The book’s core analytic
thrust centres around a previously unpublished primary source from
the early twentieth century as well as unique oral history
interviews with men remembering their lives in the gay settlement
of Mkhumbane. While South Africa’s Bill of Rights provides
constitutional protection for the right of any person to choose her
or his own sexual preferences, this has not prevented violent and
even murderous assaults on members of the growing and increasingly
vocal LGBTI community. Given the dearth of published works on South
African’s gay communities and reasoned public discussion as well
as the recent controversy over the film Inxeba, there is
considerable urgency in confronting entrenched bigotry, prejudice,
and homophobia. Working Class Homosexuality in South African
History inspires South Africans to reimagine an inclusive sense of
the past as well as the future.
Honorable Mention by the David Easton Award Committee APSA Finalist
for the 2009 Herskovits Award for outstanding scholarly work
published on Africa Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea
from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS builds from Marc
Epprecht's previous book, Hungochani (which focuses expli citly on
same-sex desire in southern Africa) to explore the historical
processes by which a singular, heterosexual identity for Africa was
constructed-by anthropologists, ethnopsychologists, colonial
officials, African elites, and most recently, health care workers
seeking to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This is an eloquently
written, accessible book, based on a rich and diverse range of
sources, that will find enthusiastic audiences in classrooms and in
the general public. Epprecht argues that Africans, just like people
all over the world, have always had a range of sexualities and
sexual identities. Over the course of the last two centuries,
however, African societies south of the Sahara have come to be
viewed as singularly heterosexual. Epprecht carefully traces the
many routes by which this singularity, this heteronormativity,
became a dominant culture. A fascinating story that will surely
generate lively debate Epprecht makes his project speak to a range
of literatures-queer theory, the new imperial history, African
social history, queer and women's studies, and biomedical
literature on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He does this with a light
enough hand that his story is not bogged down by endless references
to particular debates. Heterosexual Africa? aims to understand an
enduring stereotype about Africa and Africans. It asks how Africa
came to be defined as a "homosexual-free zone" during the colonial
era, and how this idea not only survived the transition to
independence but flourished under conditions of globalization and
early panicky responses to HIV/AIDS.
Fills a gap in the international literature by offering new
insights into the heterogeneous ways in which African men are
performing, negotiating and experiencing masculinity. Through their
analysis of the depictions in film and literature of masculinities
in colonial, independent and post-independent Africa, the
contributors open some key African texts to a more obviously
politicized set of meanings. Collectively, the essays provide space
for rethinking current theory on gender and masculinity: - how only
some of the most popular theories in masculinity studies in the
West hold true in African contexts; - howWestern masculinities
react with indigenous masculinities on the continent; - how
masculinity and femininity in Africa seem to reside more on a
continuum of cultural practices than on absolutely opposite planes;
- andhow generation often functions as a more potent metaphor than
gender. Lahoucine Ouzgane is Associate Professor of English &
Film Studies, University of Alberta, Canada.
Heterosexual Africa? The History of an idea from the age of
exploration to the age of AIDS explores the historical processes by
which a singular, heterosexual identity for Africa was constructed.
Epprecht argues that Africans, just like people all over the world,
have always had a range of sexualities and sexual identities.
Heterosexual Africa? aims to understand an enduring stereotype
about Africa and Africans. It asks how Africa came to be defined as
a "homosexual-free zone" during the colonial era, and how this idea
not only survived the transition to independence but flourished
under conditions of globalisation and early panicky responses to
HIV/AIDS. In this timely volume, Epprecht examines a number of
issues concerning sexuality and the construction of sexual
identities that have largely been overlooked by studies of African
ethnology in the past.
Homosexuality. Lesbians. Gay rights. Homophobia. These terms have
come up quite a bit in recent years in Africa to the shock,
embarrassment and even anger of many people. This book is about
that, and about the coming out (into public view) of individuals
who in the past tended to keep a low pro?le. What does the history
of homosexuality and the reactions against it tell us about African
history in general? And how might this knowledge help us in
struggles against HIV/AIDS, gender violence and other social
inequalities in contemporary Africa? Based on Marc Epprecht's
award-winning monograph Hungochani: the history of a dissident
sexuality in southern Africa, along with creative contributions
from other pioneering scholars in the field Unspoken Facts offers a
sympathetic portrayal of the lives of people who do not conform to
society's dominant expectations in terms of love and marriage.
Additional material includes several fictionalised accounts of
same-sex relationships in southern Africa.
Honorable Mention by the David Easton Award Committee APSA Finalist
for the 2009 Herskovits Award for outstanding scholarly work
published on Africa Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea
from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS builds from Marc
Epprecht's previous book, Hungochani (which focuses expli citly on
same-sex desire in southern Africa) to explore the historical
processes by which a singular, heterosexual identity for Africa was
constructed-by anthropologists, ethnopsychologists, colonial
officials, African elites, and most recently, health care workers
seeking to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This is an eloquently
written, accessible book, based on a rich and diverse range of
sources, that will find enthusiastic audiences in classrooms and in
the general public. Epprecht argues that Africans, just like people
all over the world, have always had a range of sexualities and
sexual identities. Over the course of the last two centuries,
however, African societies south of the Sahara have come to be
viewed as singularly heterosexual. Epprecht carefully traces the
many routes by which this singularity, this heteronormativity,
became a dominant culture. A fascinating story that will surely
generate lively debate Epprecht makes his project speak to a range
of literatures-queer theory, the new imperial history, African
social history, queer and women's studies, and biomedical
literature on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He does this with a light
enough hand that his story is not bogged down by endless references
to particular debates. Heterosexual Africa? aims to understand an
enduring stereotype about Africa and Africans. It asks how Africa
came to be defined as a "homosexual-free zone" during the colonial
era, and how this idea not only survived the transition to
independence but flourished under conditions of globalization and
early panicky responses to HIV/AIDS.
The persecution of people in Africa on the basis of their assumed
or perceived homosexual orientation has received considerable
coverage in the popular media in recent years. Gay-bashing by high
political and religious figures in Zimbabwe and Gambia; draconian
new laws against lesbians and gays and their supporters in Malawi,
Nigeria, Uganda; the imprisonment and extortion of gay men in
Senegal and Cameroon; and so-called corrective rapes of lesbians in
South Africa have all rightly sparked international condemnation.
However, much of the analysis thus far has been highly critical of
African leadership and culture without considering local nuances,
historical factors and external influences that are contributing to
the problem. Such commentary also overlooks grounds for optimism in
the struggle for sexual rights and justice in Africa, not just for
sexual minorities but for the majority population as well. Based on
pioneering research on the history of homosexualities and
engagement with current lgbti and HIV/AIDS activism, Mark Epprecht
provides a sympathetic overview of the issues at play, and a
hopeful outlook on the potential of sexual rights for all.
The persecution of people in Africa on the basis of their assumed
or perceived homosexual orientation has received considerable
coverage in the popular media in recent years. Gay-bashing by high
political and religious figures in Zimbabwe and Gambia; draconian
new laws against lesbians and gays and their supporters in Malawi,
Nigeria, Uganda; the imprisonment and extortion of gay men in
Senegal and Cameroon; and so-called corrective rapes of lesbians in
South Africa have all rightly sparked international condemnation.
However, much of the analysis thus far has been highly critical of
African leadership and culture without considering local nuances,
historical factors and external influences that are contributing to
the problem. Such commentary also overlooks grounds for optimism in
the struggle for sexual rights and justice in Africa, not just for
sexual minorities but for the majority population as well. Based on
pioneering research on the history of homosexualities and
engagement with current lgbti and HIV/AIDS activism, Mark Epprecht
provides a sympathetic overview of the issues at play, and a
hopeful outlook on the potential of sexual rights for all.
How does one address homophobia without threatening majority rule
democracy and freedoms of speech and faith? How does one
"Africanize" sexuality research, empirically and theoretically, in
an environment that is not necessarily welcoming to African
scholars? In Sexual Diversity in Africa, contributors critically
engage with current debates about sexuality and gender identity, as
well as with contentious issues relating to methodology,
epistemology, ethics, and pedagogy. They present a tapestry of
issues that testify to the complex nature of sexuality, sexual
practices, and gender performance in Africa. Essays examine topics
such as the well-established same-sex networks in Accra and Bamako,
African "traditions" defined by European observers, and the bizarre
mix of faith, pharmaceuticals, and pseudo-science used to "cure"
homosexual men. Their evidence also demonstrates the
indefensibility of over-simplified constructions of homosexuality
versus heterosexuality, modern versus traditional, Africa versus
the West, and progress from the African closet towards Western
models of out politics, all of which have tainted research on
same-sex practices and scientific studies of HIV/AIDS. Asserting
that the study of sexuality is intellectually and politically
sustainable in Africa, Sexual Diversity in Africa contributes to
the theorization of sexualities by presenting a more sensitive and
knowledgeable study of African experiences and perspectives.
Contributors include Olajide Akanji, Christophe Broqua, Cheryl
Cooky, Serena Owusua Dankwa, Shari L. Dworkin, Marc Epprecht,
Melissa Hackman, Notisha Massaquoi, Crystal Munthree, Kathleen
O'Mara, Stella Nyanzi, S.N.Nyeck, Vasu Reddy, Amanda Lock Swarr,
and Lisa Wiebesiek.
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