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Ngwena, C. G.,

What is Africanness? : Contesting nativism in race, culture and sexualities / Charles Ngwena. - Pretoria : Pretoria University Law Press ( PULP), 2018. - x, 306 pages 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1: Background to the hermeneutics of heterogenous Africanness. 1. Introducing the manyness of Africanness -- 2. Hermeneutics of Africanness: building on Stuart Halls cultural theory of identifications. PART 2: Africanness, race and culture. 3. Whats in a name? The naming of Africa and Africans, and the construction of radical cultural alterity -- 4. Africa as land of racial otherness -- 5. Decentring the race of Africanness. PART 3: Heterogeneous sexualities. 6. Representing African sexualities: contesting nativism from without -- 7. Transgressive sexualities: contesting nativism from within and overcoming status subordination -- 8. Mediating conflicting sexuality identifications through politics and an ethics of pluralism. EPILOGUE: Theorising Africanness.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Africans--Ethnic identity.
Group identity--Africa.
Africans--Race identity.
Bible--Hermeneutics.
Cultural Theory.
Sex--Africa.

LC Class. No.: BJ1201 / .N49