Amphibious subjects sasso and the contested politics of queer self-making in neoliberal Ghana
"Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men-known in local parlance as sasso-residing in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye's notion of "amphibious personhood,&...
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| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
[2022]©2022, 2022
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| Series: | New sexual worlds
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introducing amphibious subjects
- Situating sasso : mapping effeminate subjectivities and homoerotic desire in postcolonial Ghana
- Contesting homogeneity : sasso complexity in the face of neoliberal LGBT+ politics
- Amphibious subjectivity : queer self-making at the intersection of colliding and colluding modernities in neoliberal Ghana
- The paradox of rituals : queer possibilities in heteronormative scenes
- Palimpsestic projects : hetero-colonial missions in post-independent Ghana (1965-1975)
- Queer liberal expeditions : the BBC's "The world's worst place to be gay?" and the paradoxes of homocolonialism
- Conclusion : queering queer Africa?
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index