“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...
Subtitles: | Roundtable on LGBTIQ people in Africa |
---|---|
Main Author: | |
Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
Journals Online & Print: | |
Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
Published: |
Oxford University Press
[2015]
|
In: |
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 83, Issue: 4, Pages: 897-915 |
Online Access: |
Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |