Body, sexuality, and gender
By: edited by Flora Veit-Wild & Dirk Naguschewski.
Contributors: Veit-Wild, Flora, 1947-; Naguschewski, Dirk.
Series: Matatu -- no. 29-30.; Versions and subversions in African literatures -- 1.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Sex in literature; African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Homosexuality in literature; Feminism in literature
Notes: Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Lifting the veil of secrecy / Flora Veit-Wild and Dirk Naguschewski; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Notes on contributors and editors.