Amphibious Subjects : : Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana / / Kwame Edwin Otu.
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.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 th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berkeley, CA : : University of California Press,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Sexual Worlds Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introducing Amphibious Subjects
- Part One Setting the Scenes
- 1. Situating Sasso: Mapping Effeminate Subjectivities and Homoerotic Desire in Postcolonial Ghana
- 2. Contesting Homogeneity: Sasso Complexity in the Face of Neoliberal LGBT+ Politics
- Part Two Amphibious Subjects in Rival Geographies
- 3. Amphibious Subjectivity: Queer Self-Making at the Intersection of Colliding Modernities in Neoliberal Ghana
- 4. The Paradox of Rituals: Queer Possibilities in Heteronormative Scenes
- Part Three. Becoming and Unbecoming Amphibious Subjects in Hetero/Homo Colonial Vortices
- 5. Palimpsestic Projects: Heterocolonial Missions in Post-Independent Ghana (1965–1975)
- 6. Queer Liberal Expeditions: The BBC’s The World’s Worst Place to Be Gay? and the Paradoxes of Homocolonialism
- Conclusion: Queering Queer Africa?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index