“I Compose Myself”: Lesbian Muslim Autobiographies and the Craft of Self-Writing in South Africa

In this article, I reflect on the complex history of self-writing by Black women in South Africa as a context for reading contemporary autobiographical literature by Muslim lesbians in the country. To theorize the innovative practices in such literature, I draw on the concept of “crafting” devised b...

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Subtitles:Roundtable on LGBTIQ people in Africa
Main Author: Baderoon, Gabeba 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2015]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 83, Issue: 4, Pages: 897-915
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