Routledge Handbook of African Literature 2019
DOI: 10.4324/9781315229546-25
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Contestations through same-sex desire in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu

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“…Importantly, recent novels such as The Hairdresser of Zimbabwe by Tendai Huchu (2010), Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (2015), and Speak no Evil by Uzodinma Iweala (2018), denounce in particular the role of Pentecostal Christianity in reinforcing the frenzy of anti‐gay sensitivities that have emerged across Africa in recent decades, and in reinforcing the idea that homosexuality requires healing or deliverance as if it is a disease caused by demons. The earlier‐mentioned novel Kintu , by Makumbi, on the other hand, narratively constructs traditions of tolerance towards sexual difference in Ugandan history, which implicitly critiques the contemporary evangelical politics of homosexuality in Uganda that culminated in the passing of the 2014 Anti‐Homosexuality Act (Nabutanyi, 2019).…”
Section: Literary Critique Of Religionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Importantly, recent novels such as The Hairdresser of Zimbabwe by Tendai Huchu (2010), Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (2015), and Speak no Evil by Uzodinma Iweala (2018), denounce in particular the role of Pentecostal Christianity in reinforcing the frenzy of anti‐gay sensitivities that have emerged across Africa in recent decades, and in reinforcing the idea that homosexuality requires healing or deliverance as if it is a disease caused by demons. The earlier‐mentioned novel Kintu , by Makumbi, on the other hand, narratively constructs traditions of tolerance towards sexual difference in Ugandan history, which implicitly critiques the contemporary evangelical politics of homosexuality in Uganda that culminated in the passing of the 2014 Anti‐Homosexuality Act (Nabutanyi, 2019).…”
Section: Literary Critique Of Religionmentioning
confidence: 99%