Primitive Normativity
Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya
1st Edition
Published on 8. December 2023
240 pages
978-1-4780-2762-1 (ISBN)
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Elizabeth W. Williams traces the genealogy of a narrative about the primitive normativity of African sexuality that British colonial authorities in Kenya used to justify their control over African populations.
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Elizabeth W. Williams is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky and coeditor of The History of Sexuality: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies.
Content
Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Primitive Normativity 1
1. The Intellectual Roots of Primitive Normativity 24
2. Sleeping Dictionaries and Mobile Metropoles: Female (A)Sexuality in the Silberrad Scandal of 1908 42
3. "Stoop Low to Conquer": Primitive Normativity and Trusteeship in the Kenyan "Indian Crisis" of 1923 69
4. White Peril: Rape, Race, and Contamination 92
5. Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange's Kenyan Novels 117
6. Eating the Other: Erotic Consumption in Anti-Mau Mau Discourse 139
Conclusion 163
Notes 169
Bibliography 211
Index 223
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Primitive Normativity 1
1. The Intellectual Roots of Primitive Normativity 24
2. Sleeping Dictionaries and Mobile Metropoles: Female (A)Sexuality in the Silberrad Scandal of 1908 42
3. "Stoop Low to Conquer": Primitive Normativity and Trusteeship in the Kenyan "Indian Crisis" of 1923 69
4. White Peril: Rape, Race, and Contamination 92
5. Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange's Kenyan Novels 117
6. Eating the Other: Erotic Consumption in Anti-Mau Mau Discourse 139
Conclusion 163
Notes 169
Bibliography 211
Index 223
