Frottage av Keguro Macharia

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<p><b><i>Winner, 2020 Alan Bray Memorial Prize, given by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association</i></b><br/><b>A new understanding of freedom in the black diaspora grounded in the erotic </b><br/>In <i>Frottage</i>, Keguro Macharia weaves together histories and theories of blackness and sexuality to generate a fundamentally new understanding of both the black diaspora and queer studies. Macharia maintains that to reach this understanding, we must start from the black diaspora, which requires re-thinking not only the historical and theoretical utility of identity categories such as gay, lesbian, and bisexual, but also more foundational categories such as normative and non-normative, human and non-human. Simultaneously, <i>Frottage</i> questions the heteronormative tropes through which the black diaspora has been imagined. Between Frantz Fanon, Ren¿aran, Jomo Kenyatta, and Claude McKay, Macharia moves through genres¿psychoanalysis, fiction, anthropology, poetry¿as well as r