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Acknowledgments ix Preface: Geneses xi Introduction: Shifting Meanings, Erotic Choices 1 AFRICAN LITERATURE Survey of the Historical and Geographical Scope of Gender and Sexuality in African Literature -17- Part One: Social and Historical Transformations of Gender and Sexuality Gender and Sex in the Political Economy of Postcolonial Discourse Chapter 1 What Kind of Woman Are You, A'isha? Misogyny and Islam in Ibrahim Tahir's The Last Imam Erica Hoagland 27 Chapter 2 Constructing Postcolonial Maleness in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments Pinkie Mekgwe 49 Chapter 3 Posting the Agenda in African Women's Writing: The Postcolonial Condition in Promise Okekwe's Novels Chukwuma Okoye 57 Chapter 4 The Fragmented Heritage in the Reconstitution of Home: Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia Najat Rahman 73 Part Two: Rumbles of Race in Gender and Sexuality Matters The African Diaspora Factors of Race and Racism, and Social and Racial Injustices Chapter 5 The Issue Is Race: Gender and Sexuality in Dany Laferrière's North- American Autobiography Ada Uzoamaka Azodo 91 Chapter 6 Building Alternative Communities: Race and Female Sexual Agency in Calixthe Beyala's Amours sauvages Stacy E. Fifer 109 Chapter 7 Feminine Transgression and Crossing Over: Maryse Condé's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem Amy Lee 129 Part Three: Contestations, Protestations, and Representations Performance, Corporeal Practices, and Individual Life Styles Chapter 8 Woman-Woman Marriage in Igboland Egodi Uchendu 141 Chapter 9 Uncovering Incest in Father/Daughter Relationships: Displacement and Distancing Strategies in Buchi Emecheta's The Family and Evelyne Mpoudi Ngolle's Sous la cendre le feu Jill Eagling 155 Chapter 10 Représentation(s)de l'excision dans le roman ivoirien: des Soleils des indépendances (1968) d'Ahmadou Kourouma à Rebelles (1998) de Fatou Kéita [Representation(s) of Excision in the Ivorian Novel: From Ahmadou Kourouma's The Suns of Independence (1968) to Fatou Keita's Rebellious Women (1998)] Bernadette K. Kassi Editor's Recapitulation in English by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo 177 Part Four: Social Constructions of Homosexual, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transvestite Identities Gay Male and Female Bodies and the Politics of Gender and Sexual Identity and Representation Chapter 11 "She Doesn't Know the Truth about Me: [T] he Shaping Presence" of the Closet in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon M. Catherine Jonet 199 Chapter 12 Dangerous Encounters with the West: Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy Miriam C. Gyimah 213 AFRICAN FILM Survey of the Historical and Geographical Scope of Gender and Sexuality in African Film -229- Chapter 13 Woubi chéri: Negotiating Subjectivity, Gender, and Power Maureen N. Eke 239 Part Five: Social Constructions of Masculine and Feminine Identities Masculinity, Femininity, and Power; Eroticism and Constructions of Gender Chapter 14 "Stand up, boy!" Sidney Poitier, "boy", and Filmic Black Masculinity Keith M. Harris 251 Chapter 15 Does the Season of Men Require the Harvest of Women? A Tunisian Filmmaker's Vision Anastasia Valassopoulos 271 Chapter 16 The Sex Appeal of Idrissa Ouedraogo's Films: Yaaba (1989), Tilaï (1990), Samba Traoré (1993), Le cri du coeur (1994), La colère des dieux (2002) Christiane P. Makward 285 Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Film viii Chapter 17 Representations of Gender in Three West African Films: Finzan (1989), Touki Bouki (1973), and Hyenas (1992) Victoria Pasley 299 Editors and Contributors 323 Index 329
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Sex in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Motion pictures -- Africa.
Sex in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.