Heterosexual Africa?: The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS

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Contents Preface ix Abbreviations xiii Chapter 1 A Puzzling Blindspot, a Troubling Silence, a Strange Consensus: Reflections on the Heterosexual Norm in “African AIDS” 1 Chapter 2 The Ethnography of African Straightness 34 Chapter 3: Ethnopsychiatry and the Making of Gay Shaka 65 Chapter 4 Slim Disease and the Science of Silence 100 Chapter 5 Alternatives and Ambiguities: African Voices in Literature and Film 131 Conclusion 160 Notes 173 Works Cited 187 Index 219 Introduction w vii You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...