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Queer Africa : selected stories
- Title
- Queer Africa : selected stories / edited by Makhosazana Xaba and Karen Martin.
- Publication
- Oxford : New Internationalist Publications, 2018.
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- Description
- 264 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- This collection draws together twenty-five stories selected from two ground breaking anthologies published by MaThoko Books, an imprint of Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA) in South Africa. The first volume, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction won the 26th Lambda Literary Award. In 2017 Queer Africa 2: New fiction added fresh material to the LGBTIQA+ literary landscape.;Stories from Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Botswana, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe celebrate the diversity and fluidity of queer and African identifications and expressions.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Short stories.
- African fiction (English)
- Fiction.
- Contents
- Nine pieces of desire / Idza L -- Pampers / Olakunle Ologunro -- Sethunya likes girls better / Wame Molefhe -- Pelican driver / Davina Owombre -- Jambula tree / Monica Arac de Nyeko -- Going home / Alistair Mackay -- Staying afloat / Unoma Azuah -- Maimuna doesn't know / Wilfred Jean-Louis -- Iyawo / Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene -- Chief of the home / Beatrice Lamwaka -- Leaving civvy street / Annie Holmes -- Pyrrhic Victory / Ola Osaze -- Pub 360 / H W Mukami -- Rock / Lindiewe Nkutha -- This tomorrow was Christmas / Juliet Kushaba -- The day he came / Amatesiro Dore -- All covered up / Dolar Vasani -- Chapter thirteen / K. Sello Duiker -- Àwúre ÌfAA)ràn / Rafeeat Aliyu -- The bath / Wamuwi Mbao -- My dad forgot my name? / Victor Lewis -- Chebor's light / Nancy Lindah Ilamwenya.
- Call Number
- Sc C 19-33
- ISBN
- 9781780264639
- 1780264631
- OCLC
- 1019991943
- Title
- Queer Africa : selected stories / edited by Makhosazana Xaba and Karen Martin.
- Publisher
- Oxford : New Internationalist Publications, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Xaba, Makhosazana, editor.Martin, Karen, editor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc C 19-33