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Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana (Volume 2)

Posted By: roxul
Date: 27 Jul 2022 10:00:14
Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana (Volume 2)

Kwame Edwin Otu, "Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana (Volume 2) "
English | ISBN: 0520381858 | 2022 | 216 pages | PDF | 7 MB

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men—known in local parlance as sasso—residing in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye's notion of "amphibious personhood," Kwame Edwin Otu argues that sasso embody and articulate amphibious subjectivity in their self-making, creating an identity that moves beyond the homogenizing impulses of western categories of gender and sexuality. Such subjectivity simultaneously unsettles claims purported by the Christian heteronationalist state and LGBT+ human rights organizations that Ghana is predominantly heterosexual or homophobic. Weaving together personal interactions with sasso, participant observation, autoethnography, archival sources, essays from African and African-diasporic literature, and critical analyses of documentaries such as the BBC's
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