Visibilizing “Those Who Have No Part”: ...
Document type :
Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage
Title :
Visibilizing “Those Who Have No Part”: LGBTQIA+ Representation in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction in English
Author(s) :
Courtois, Cédric [Auteur]
Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères - ULR 4074 [CECILLE]

Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères - ULR 4074 [CECILLE]
Journal title :
Etudes Anglaises
Contemporary Nigerian Literature
Contemporary Nigerian Literature
Pages :
175-191
Publisher :
Klincksieck
Publication date :
2022-07-01
ISSN :
0014-195X
English keyword(s) :
Dissensus
LGBTQIA+
LGBTQ studies
Coloniality of discourse
Gender History
Sara Ahmed
Jacques Rancière
Nigerian literature
LGBTQIA+
LGBTQ studies
Coloniality of discourse
Gender History
Sara Ahmed
Jacques Rancière
Nigerian literature
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Littératures
English abstract : [en]
In this paper, I propose to analyze the ways in which several contemporary Nigerian novels written in English reflect upon LGBTQIA+ issues and rights, and to examine the politics of literature that they articulate in order ...
Show more >In this paper, I propose to analyze the ways in which several contemporary Nigerian novels written in English reflect upon LGBTQIA+ issues and rights, and to examine the politics of literature that they articulate in order to give “those who have no part” (LGBTQIA+ characters) a greater visibility in a heteronormative and homophobic society. The concepts developed by Jacques Rancière (“the distribution ofthe sensible,” “dissensus”) and Sara Ahmed (“willfulness”) enable us to show how these characters position themselves as “dissensual” (Rancière). This “dissensus” leads to the emergence and development of narratives that have long been silenced. I will show in what ways these novels first foreground the marginalization and taming of the “monstrous” LGBTQIA+ characters, before explaining that taken together, they constitute a “willfulness archive.” Finally, by giving a central place to LGBTQIA+ characters, Nigerian writers engage in a form of activism, which for some of them is also linked to a decolonial approach to gender whereby they “delink” from “the coloniality of gender,” in order to liberate Nigerian queer bodies.Show less >
Show more >In this paper, I propose to analyze the ways in which several contemporary Nigerian novels written in English reflect upon LGBTQIA+ issues and rights, and to examine the politics of literature that they articulate in order to give “those who have no part” (LGBTQIA+ characters) a greater visibility in a heteronormative and homophobic society. The concepts developed by Jacques Rancière (“the distribution ofthe sensible,” “dissensus”) and Sara Ahmed (“willfulness”) enable us to show how these characters position themselves as “dissensual” (Rancière). This “dissensus” leads to the emergence and development of narratives that have long been silenced. I will show in what ways these novels first foreground the marginalization and taming of the “monstrous” LGBTQIA+ characters, before explaining that taken together, they constitute a “willfulness archive.” Finally, by giving a central place to LGBTQIA+ characters, Nigerian writers engage in a form of activism, which for some of them is also linked to a decolonial approach to gender whereby they “delink” from “the coloniality of gender,” in order to liberate Nigerian queer bodies.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Popular science :
Non
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