Queer Prolepsis and the Sexual Commons: An Introduction

Osinubi, Taiwo Adetunji

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“…The novel demarcates, denounces, and protects the various social, legal, and cultural specificities of non-binary queer individuals in Senegal; it resists the impetus to contextualize such individuals within Western conceptualizations and categories of gender and sexuality in order to achieve social legibility and satisfy some essentialized notion of human rights. In this way, the novel extends the call for a "dehomogenization" of queer studies and its Western conceptualizations of queer existence and identities (Osinubi 2016). It advocates for greater inclusion of LGBTQþ individuals within Senegalese society, while also resisting a progressive view of the advancement of gay visibility, even gay rights, in Senegal from "the globalizing tendencies of Western homosexuality" (Hayes 2020:180).…”

Section: Senegalese Literary Social Engagement and Global Queer Discoursementioning

confidence: 91%

In and Out in Senegal: Unearthing Queer Roots in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s De purs hommes

Bryson¹

2021

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s 2018 novel De purs hommes fictionalizes recent incidents of homophobia in Senegal to interrogate the relationship between queer men and social dynamics in the country. This article demonstrates that the novel deploys multidirectional critical discourse and oblique narrative tactics to highlight the foundational role in Senegalese culture and society of the fraught dichotomy between private and public life. Bryson contends that the novel unearths these queer roots in order to incorporate all normative identities into queer existence, conceptually blurring the social barriers to LGBTQ+ agency in the country.

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Section: Senegalese Literary Social Engagement and Global Queer Discoursementioning

confidence: 91%