
Le Queer Imperial
Male homoerotic desire in francophone colonial and postcolonial literature
Julin Everett(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 19. July 2018
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-90-04-36553-7 (ISBN)
Description
In Le Queer Imperial Julin Everett explores the taboo subject of male homoerotic desire between black Africans and white Europeans in francophone colonial and postcolonial literatures. Everett exposes the intersection of power and desire in blanc-noir relationships in colonial and postcolonial black Africa and postimperial Europe. Reading these literatures for their portrayals of race, gender and sexuality, Everett begins a conversation about personal and political violence in the face of forbidden desires.
Reviews / Votes
"Throughout, Everett is [...] careful to emphasize that homoerotic desire can offer continuity with aspects of colonial discourse rather than suggest a liberation from colonial dynamics. [Her] exploration of homophobia in her corpus-as well as in the theoretical writings of thinkers such as Frantz Fanon-is particularly sophisticated and will be of interest to researchers interested in the enduring power of traditions that shape how African male sexuality is represented and understood."- Aedi'ni Ni'Loingsigh, University of Stirling UK, in French Studies: A Quarterly Review Vol. 74.2 2020 pp. 332-333
"Julin Everett's Le Queer Imperial is an insightful and educational read for any scholar interested in Francophone literature and culture of black Africa, both colonial and postcolonial. Everett's work is critical for literary scholars of black Africa since, as she highlights so well in her introduction, literary analysis of colonial and postcolonial African literature has not been done in this fashion. Even more impactful is her choice of corpus, composed of white European and black African authors, which underlines a trajectory for how readers can better understand the evolution (if we choose to use the term) of homoerotic desire and depiction in colonial and postcolonial Francophone Africana literature. Everett turns the tacit of homoerotic desire in black Africa into explicit knowledge for the readers of her work."
- Daniel Maroun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA, in H-France Review Vol. 19 (July 2019), No. 143
"Le Queer Imperial more than succeeds in its aim to provide 'a new approach to reading male homoerotic desire and domination in Francophone colonial and postcolonial texts' (6). By significantly advancing the fields of postcolonial studies and gender and sexuality studies to the often-neglected study of Black Africa, Everett's kaleidoscopic analysis of homoeroticism paves the way for future transnational considerations."
- Ryan Joyce, Tulane University USA, in sx salon Vol. 37 2021
"Resistant a toute grille d'interpretation reductrice, la puissance theorique de cette etude vient chambouler les champs de lecture habituels, en puisant a la fois dans une vaste bibliotheque theorique allant de l'anthropologie aux plus recents travaux portant sur le queer postcolonial, sur les marginalites, mais aussi et surtout sur les masculinites (postcoloniales). Chaque chapitre offre des analyses pointues de passages souvent au bord de la violence (post)coloniale la plus brutale. L'autrice deconstruit brillamment les epistemologies hetero-sexistes qui se sont construites a travers le delire predateur du projet colonial, mais laisse affleurer toutes les contradictions du pouvoir masculin jusque dans son envers et ses travers, ses depassements outre-genre vers une sexualite queer qui ne peut dire son nom ou s'exprimer librement sous les ideologies regnantes."
- Hugues Azerad, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, in Dalhousie French Studies, 2021.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-36553-7 (9789004365537)
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Person
Julin Everett, Ph.D. (2010), UCLA, is an Assistant Professor of French at Ursinus College, who has published articles on black Africa and the Caribbean. Her work on self-representation includes the art installation Scene/Unseen on Jewish wearers of the yellow star.
Content
Introduction: Passages a l'acte: Political and Textual Violence in Francophone Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures
1 Colonial Sexting: Homoerotic Voyeurism in La Femme et l'Homme nu by Pierre Mille and Andre Demaison, and Makako, singe d'Afrique by Herman Gregoire
2 "Entre hommes et sous l'equateur": Colonial Masculinity, Race and Desire in Makako, singe d'Afrique
3 Nothing but a Thing: The African Male as Fetishist and Fetish in La Femme et l'Homme nu
4 Loving the Alien: Rape of the African Immigre in Ousmane Sembene's Le Docker noir and Saidou Bokoum's Chaine
5 Is Looking Merely the Opposite of Doing? Rape and Representation in Le Docker noir 89
6 "L'homme de couleur et le blanc": Interracial Desire and the Fear of the Queer in Chaine
7 Civil Servant Whores and Neocolonial Slum-Johns in Sony Labou Tansi's Je, soussigne cardiaque and Williams Sassine's Memoire d'une peau
8 The Space Between: Bisexuality, Intersexuality, Albinism and the Postcolonial State in Memoire d'une peau
9 Must la victime Be Feminine? Postcolonial Violence, Gender Ambiguity, and Homoerotic Desire in Sony Labou Tansi's Je, soussigne cardiaque
Works Cited
1 Colonial Sexting: Homoerotic Voyeurism in La Femme et l'Homme nu by Pierre Mille and Andre Demaison, and Makako, singe d'Afrique by Herman Gregoire
2 "Entre hommes et sous l'equateur": Colonial Masculinity, Race and Desire in Makako, singe d'Afrique
3 Nothing but a Thing: The African Male as Fetishist and Fetish in La Femme et l'Homme nu
4 Loving the Alien: Rape of the African Immigre in Ousmane Sembene's Le Docker noir and Saidou Bokoum's Chaine
5 Is Looking Merely the Opposite of Doing? Rape and Representation in Le Docker noir 89
6 "L'homme de couleur et le blanc": Interracial Desire and the Fear of the Queer in Chaine
7 Civil Servant Whores and Neocolonial Slum-Johns in Sony Labou Tansi's Je, soussigne cardiaque and Williams Sassine's Memoire d'une peau
8 The Space Between: Bisexuality, Intersexuality, Albinism and the Postcolonial State in Memoire d'une peau
9 Must la victime Be Feminine? Postcolonial Violence, Gender Ambiguity, and Homoerotic Desire in Sony Labou Tansi's Je, soussigne cardiaque
Works Cited