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Title: | Mariama Barry, Ken Bugul, Calixthe Beyala, and the politics of female homoeroticism in sub-Saharan francophone African literature |
Author: | Etoke, Nathalie |
Year: | 2009 |
Periodical: | Research in African Literatures |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 173-189 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Cameroon Guinea Senegal |
Subjects: | homosexuality novels French language women writers |
About persons: | Mariama Barry Calixthe Beyala (1961-) Ken Bugul (1947-) pseud. for Mariètou Mbaye Biléoma |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/research_in_african_literatures/v040/40.2.etoke.pdf |
Abstract: | The emergence of African feminism and womanism has elucidated pivotal issues that African women face in a patriarchal society that undermines their existence. However, such movements reinforce the dominant presence of heterosexual standards in denying the reality of its most marginalized subset, same-sex love interactions. This article explores the relationship between culture, society, law, gender, free will, and sexuality. The author unravels the strategies of writing female homoerotic desire, displaying the ingenious literary devices, adroit techniques, and skills that allow three francophone African women writers, Mariama Barry (Guinea), Ken Bugul (Senegal), and Calixthe Beyala (Cameroon), to create a narrative space in which female sexuality is viewed through complex lenses that alternate, combine, or contradict heterosexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |