Queer Africa
New And Collected Fiction
Karen Martin; Makhosazana Xaba
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Queer Africa is a collection of charged, tangled, tender, unapologetic, funny, bruising and brilliant stories about the many ways in which we love one another on the continent. The collection includes exquisitely written work by some of the great African writers of this century K. Sello Duiker, Monica Arac de Nyeko, Beatrice Lamwaka and Richard de Nooy as well as new voices that map out a haunting, intricate, complex Africa. Phrases like Wamuwi Mbao’s She looks like you, when nobody’s watching her’ and Sello Duiker’s narrator’s gentle sadness that doesn’t take you all at once’ share with us not only the aftermath of sex, but moments where the world opens itself.
In these unafraid stories of intimacy, sweat, betrayal and restless confidences, we accompany characters into cafes, tattoo salons, the barest of bedrooms, the coldly glinting spaces into which the rich withdraw, unlit streets, and their own deepest interiors. We learn much in these gloriously achieved stories about love and sex, but perhaps more about why we hurt and need one another.~Gabeba Baderoon
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Details
| ISBN | 9781920590338 |
| Genre | Black Interest; Anthology – Fiction; Short Story Collection (Multiple Authors) |
| Publication Date | 01-May-13 |
| Publisher | MaThoko’s Books |
| Format | Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 214 |
| LoC Classification | PR9348 .Q44 2013 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Great |
| Illustrator | Carla Kreuser |
| Subject | Fiction |
| BookID | 10270 |
