The Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act and Male Same-Sex Desire in Nigerian Literature

    Brabant, Jonathan (2022)
Mémoire
Accès libre
    • The Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act and Male Same-Sex Desire in Nigerian Literature
    • 26 septembre 2022
    • Nigéria
    • Littérature
    • Sexualité
    • Homosexualité
    • Désir
    • Identité
    • Africanité
    • Adichie
    • Hétéronormativité
    • Genre
    • Nigeria
    • Literature
    • Sexuality
    • Same-sex desire
    • Adichie
    • SSMPA
    • Identity
    • African identity
    • Africanness
    • Heteronormativity
    • Gender
    • Le mémoire offre un perspective historique sur le désir homosexuel masculin au Nigéria, analyse son expression dans un corpus littéraire et le met en relation avec la notion d'identité africaine.
    • The thesis tries to highlight that Europe constructed the heteronormativity that is described as authentically African by the nationalist discourses promoting an essentialist view of the African identity. Though postcolonial writers often portrayed same-sex desire as a colonial import, an emergent discourse tries to debunk this myth. The digital space is a literary space that enables authors to publish their texts online without being censored by Nigerian authorities. The textual analyses underscores that the authors are attached to undermine heteronormativity and its gender norms. The texts under study highlight the multiplicity of Nigerian identities. Instead of trying to reach an illusory and idealized African identity, some writers promote the development of one’s own authentic individual identity resulting from a negotiation between experiences, traditions and beliefs.

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Brabant, Jonathan (2022), The Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act and Male Same-Sex Desire in Nigerian Literature [Mémoire]