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Author Otu, Kwame Edwin, 1983- author.

Title Amphibious subjects : sasso and the contested politics of queer self-making in neoliberal Ghana / Kwame Edwin Otu.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series New sexual worlds ; 2
New sexual worlds ; 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introducing amphibious subjects -- Situating sasso: mapping effeminate subjectivities and homoerotic desire in postcolonial Ghana -- Contesting homogeneity : Sasso complexity in the face of neoliberal LGBT+ politics -- Amphibious subjectivity : queer self-making at the intersection of colliding and colluding modernities -- The paradox of rituals : queer possibilities in heteronormative scenes -- Palimpsestic projects : hetero-colonial missions in post-independent Ghana (1965-1975) -- Queer liberal expeditions : The BBC's "the world's worst place to be gay?" and the paradoxes of homo-colonialism -- Conclusion : queering queer Africa?
Summary "Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men-known in local parlance as sasso-residing in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye's notion of "amphibious personhood," Kwame Edwin Otu argues that sasso embody and articulate amphibious subjectivity in their self-making, creating an identity that moves beyond the homogenizing impulses of western categories of gender and sexuality. Such subjectivity simultaneously unsettles claims purported by the Christian heteronationalist state and LGBT+ human rights organizations that Ghana is predominantly heterosexual or homophobic. Weaving together personal interactions with sasso, participant observation, autoethnography, archival sources, essays from African and African-diasporic literature, and critical analyses of documentaries such as the BBC's The World's Worst Place to Be Gay, Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic meditation on how Africa is configured as the "heart of homophobic darkness" in transnational LGBT+ human rights imaginaries"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Sexual minority community -- Ghana -- Accra.
Effeminacy -- Ghana -- Accra.
Human rights -- Anthropological aspects -- Ghana -- Accra.
Sexual minorities -- Ghana -- Accra.
Gender identity -- Ghana -- Accra.
Homosexuality -- Ghana -- Accra.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ Studies / Bisexual Studies.
Effeminacy. (OCoLC)fst01764771
Gender identity. (OCoLC)fst00939593
Homosexuality. (OCoLC)fst00959755
Human rights -- Anthropological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01751356
Sexual minorities. (OCoLC)fst01202158
Sexual minority community. (OCoLC)fst01910176
Ghana -- Accra. (OCoLC)fst01205301
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
Other Form: Print version: Otu, Kwame Edwin, 1983- Amphibious subjects Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] 9780520381858 (DLC) 2022000340
ISBN 9780520381865 (electronic book)
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