Frottage : frictions of intimacy across the black diaspora / Keguro Macharia.

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"In Frottage, Keguro Macharia weaves together histories and theories of blackness and sexuality to generate a fundamentally new understanding of both the black diaspora and queer studies. Macharia maintains that to reach this understanding, we must re-think not only the historical and theoretical ut...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Sexual cultures.
Main Author: Macharia, Keguro (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Series:Sexual cultures.
Subjects:
African diaspora.
Black people > Social conditions.
Sex.
Queer theory.
Physical Description:ix, 207 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Frottage
  • 1. Frantz Fanon's homosexual territories
  • 2. Mourning the erotic in René Maran's Batouala
  • 3. Ethnicity as frottage in Jomo Kenyatta's Facing Mount Kenya
  • 4. Antinomian intimacy in Claude McKay's Jamaica
  • beginnings, in seven movements.