What is Africanness? : Contesting nativism in race, culture and sexualities / Charles Ngwena.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Pretoria : Pretoria University Law Press ( PULP), 2018.Description: x, 306 pages 25 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleLOC classification:
  • BJ1201  .N49
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PART 1: Background to the hermeneutics of heterogenous Africanness. 1. Introducing the {u2018}manyness{u2019} of Africanness -- 2. Hermeneutics of Africanness: building on Stuart Hall{u2019}s cultural theory of identifications. PART 2: Africanness, race and culture. 3. What{u2019}s 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. {u2018}Transgressive{u2019} sexualities: contesting nativism from within and overcoming status subordination -- 8. Mediating conflicting sexuality identifications through politics and an ethics of pluralism. EPILOGUE: Theorising Africanness.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1: Background to the hermeneutics of heterogenous Africanness. 1. Introducing the {u2018}manyness{u2019} of Africanness -- 2. Hermeneutics of Africanness: building on Stuart Hall{u2019}s cultural theory of identifications. PART 2: Africanness, race and culture. 3. What{u2019}s 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. {u2018}Transgressive{u2019} sexualities: contesting nativism from within and overcoming status subordination -- 8. Mediating conflicting sexuality identifications through politics and an ethics of pluralism. EPILOGUE: Theorising Africanness.

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