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Homophobia is still rife and it remains dangerous and even
life-threatening to be out in Africa, but Chantal Zabus here traces the range of
representations of same-sex desire in Africa through historic and contemporary
sources.Homosexuality was and still is thought to be quintessentially 'un-African'. Yet in
this book Chantal Zabus examines the anthropological, cultural and literary representations
of male and female same-sex desire in a pan-African context from the nineteenth century to
the present. Reaching back to early colonial contacts between Europe and Africa, and
covering a broad geographical spectrum, along a north-south axis from Mali to South Africa
and an east-west axis from Senegal to Kenya, here is a comparative approach encompassing two
colonial languages (English and French) and some African languages. Out in Africa charts
developments in Sub-Saharan African texts and contextsthrough the work of 7 colonial writers
and some 25 postcolonial writers. These texts grow in complexity from roughly the 1860s,
through the 1990s with the advent of queer theory, up to 2010. The author identifies those
texts thatpresent, in a subterraneous way at first and then with increased confidence,
homosexuality-as-an-identity rather than an occasional or ritualized practice, as was the
case in the early ethnographic imagination. The work sketchesout an evolutionary pattern in
representing male and female same-sex desire in the novel and other texts, as well as in the
cultural and political contexts that oppose such desires. Chantal Zabus is IUF Professor in
Comparative Postcolonial Literatures and Gender Studies at Universite Paris 13 (now
Sorbonne-Paris-Cite). She is author of Between Rites and Rights; The African Palimpsest:
Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel, and Tempests after
Shakespeare.She is presently Editor-in-Chief of the on-line journal Postcolonial
Text.

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