Queer Impérial
Subtitle: Male Homoerotic Desire in Francophone Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9789004365537
Subjects: French literature, history and criticism; Homosexuality in literature; Race in literature; Colonies in literature
Description: In Le Queer Imperial Julin Everett explores the taboo subject of male homoerotic desire between black Africans and white Europeans in francophone colonial and postcolonial literatures. Everett exposes the intersection of power and desire in blanc-noir relationships in colonial and postcolonial black Africa and postimperial Europe. Reading these literatures for their portrayals of race, gender and sexuality, Everett begins a conversation about personal and political violence in the face of forbidden desires.