{"product_id":"african-intimacies-race-homosexuality-and-globalization-9780816649167","title":"African Intimacies: Race  Homosexuality  and Globalization","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere have been few book-length engagements with the question of sexuality in Africa  let alone African homosexuality. African Intimacies simultaneously responds to the public debate on the Africanness of homosexuality and interrogates the meaningfulness of the terms sexuality and homosexuality outside Euro-American discourse. Speculating on cultural practices interpreted by missionaries as sodomy and resistance to colonialism  Neville Hoad begins by analyzing the 1886 Bugandan martyrs incidentthe execution of thirty men in the royal court. Then  in a series of close readings  he addresses questions of race  sex  and globalization in the 1965 Wole Soyinka novel The Interpreters  examines the emblematic 1998 Lambeth conference of Anglican bishops  considers the imperial legacy in depictions of the HIV\/AIDS crisis  and reveals how South African writer Phaswane Mpes contemporary novel Welcome to Our Hillbrow problematizes notions of African identity and cosmopolitanism.Hoads assessment of the historical valence of homosexuality in Africa shows how the category has served a key role in a larger story  one in which sexuality has been made in line with a vision of white Western truth  limiting an understanding of intimacy that could imagine an African universalism.Neville Hoad is assistant professor of English at the University of Texas  Austin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666168373301,"sku":"ByrdShop_0816649162","price":36.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780816649167.jpg?v=1782421341","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/african-intimacies-race-homosexuality-and-globalization-9780816649167","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}