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Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature explores how normative ideas of sex and gender have shaped the development of Nigerian literature. Tracing this influence from the rise of mid-twentieth-century modernist writing to the contemporary appearance of LGBTQIA literature, Kerry Manzo presents a new framework for understanding Nigerian literature, one in which sexuality and gender—or more specifically, their containment through national discourses of heteronormativity in colonial and postcolonial Nigeria—are central to its problematics and poetics. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and archival materials, including institutional records, personal letters, small publications, and other ephemera, Manzo illuminates the historical and material conditions that have placed limitations on the literary representation of women and sexual minorities and shaped the national masculine tradition of letters.
Contents
Chapter One. Crying in the Wilderness: Gender Politics of Mbari
Chapter Two. Sublimations and Shadows: Sexual Politics of Ibadan Modernism in Black Orpheus
Chapter Three. Sexual Foils and Sexual Others: Rendering the Queer Body
Chapter Four. Shrinking, Shifting Ground: Transing the Coloniality of Gender
Chapter Five. Lesbian Specters and Speculations: Woman-to-Woman Marriage and the Bio-Logic of Heterocoloniality
Chapter Six. Figures on the Horizon: Queer Temporalities and Epistemologies
