From: ksumner-AT-bosshog.arts.uwo.ca
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:03:13 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Post-colonial heterosexism...


I'm not sure if this is what you mean ... but you could look at Wole
Soyinka's novel _The Interpreters_ for a very unpleasant representation of
homosexuality within a Nigerian context.  The character Joe Golder (I think
that's his name) is homosexual and racially mixed (black and white - an
interesting way to denaturalize or "otherize" him further) and also
self-loathing and self-destructive.  He is sometimes described as gay "but
masculine."  The novel overall is influenced by modernism as much as by
Yoruban mythology and narrative forms.

karen

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Karen Sumner
Department of English
University College
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
N6A 3K7

ksumner-AT-bosshog.arts.uwo.ca

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