S.N. Nyeck

African Queer Dialectics and Politics

Simulation and Simulacra

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This book reflects on queer identity struggles through selected African films, Proteus, Touki Bouki & Karmen Gei, Round Trip & Madame Brouette. It focuses on the symbolic interactions, negotiation styles and strategies of queer characters in each film to develop the idea of queer politics as simulation and simulacra following Baudrillard's (1994) characterization of the postmodern condition in mass reproduction. In these selected works, queer characters negotiate desire and power in ways that embody and exhaust context-bound conditions of pain and rejection. Simultaneously, symbolic social interactions, even restrictive ones, provide… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-319-61224-9
EAN: 9783319612249
Produktnummer: 23013940
Verlag: Springer Nature EN
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Masse: 1 Ex.; H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm 0 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
Abbildungen: Book; schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
Sonstiges: Research

Über den Autor

S.N. Nyeck is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Intersectional Center for Inclusion and Social Justice at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He is the author of Public Procurement Reform and Governance in Africa and co-editor of Sexual Diversity and Citizenship in Africa.