2014
DOI: 10.1080/23277408.2015.1065463
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Hostile Witnesses and Queer Life in Kenyan Prison Writing

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“…In addition, this essay attempts to advance a dialogue about prison sex within African queer and sexuality studies by analyzing the invisibility of prison sex during a time of heightened scrutiny of same-sex sexualities. Although some queer African studies researchers have initiated a scholarly conversation about prison sexual cultures in analyses of African prison memoirs and fiction (Munro, 2012;Osinubi, 2014Osinubi, , 2018, there is a pressing need to document and theorize African same-sex sexualities in all the spaces they emerge, including in prisons. This research is especially urgent considering that incarcerated same-sexpracticing men are at increased risk of contracting HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections.…”
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“…In addition, this essay attempts to advance a dialogue about prison sex within African queer and sexuality studies by analyzing the invisibility of prison sex during a time of heightened scrutiny of same-sex sexualities. Although some queer African studies researchers have initiated a scholarly conversation about prison sexual cultures in analyses of African prison memoirs and fiction (Munro, 2012;Osinubi, 2014Osinubi, , 2018, there is a pressing need to document and theorize African same-sex sexualities in all the spaces they emerge, including in prisons. This research is especially urgent considering that incarcerated same-sexpracticing men are at increased risk of contracting HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Despite the invisibility of prison sex in the social construction of same-sex sexualities, prison is an ‘important, and vexed, imaginary space for the production of ideas about homosexuality, masculinity, and nation’ in African societies (Munro, 2012: 48–49; see also Osinubi, 2014). In other words, sex, whether it is pleasurable or coercive, is part of prison social structures.…”
Section: Same-sex Sexualities In African Prisonsmentioning
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