Wesley Paul Macheso
Biographic Data
| ID | 4051906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wesley Paul Macheso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wesley Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Macheso |
| SIGNATURE | MACHESO W P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malawi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4841-8399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queer cultures and African cinema
This article analyses selected documentaries about queer experiences in Uganda and Nigeria. It focuses on counter-discourses on Africa’s heterosexual normativity, advancing three perspectives. The first concerns globalization and rapid cultural exchanges enabled by various forms of mobility, which bring cultures into contact, promoting interferences. The documentaries analysed here reveal that queer African cinema and the identities it brings to …
Queering Tropical African Heteronormativity through Spirit Worlds
This article analyzes how contemporary queer African writing participates in decoloniality by queering (hetero)normative knowledge systems for social and epistemic transformation. In my reading of Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji (2020), I argue that Trans/Queer African literature participates in a very important epistemic project of counterfactualism by offering alternatives to perceived and systemically imposed African gender and sexual r…
African(a) Queer Presence
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Lives in Motion
This paper discusses two fictional films — Inxeba (The Wound) (2017 Trengove, J., dir. 2017. Inxeba (The Wound). Hamburg: Riva Filmproduktion. [Google Scholar]) and Rafiki (2018 Kahiu, W., dir. 2018. Rafiki. Cape Town: Big World Cinema. [Google Scholar]) — as forms of queer representation within the nascent field of queer African cinema. My analysis situates the films within discourses of globalisation with a specific interest on how theories of …
Fiction as prosthesis
In this article, I read contemporary African queer fiction as a tool employed by writers to represent and rehumanise queer identities in Sub-Saharan African societies. In these societies, heteropatriarchal authorities strive to disable queer agency by dehumanising queer subjects. I argue that African queer identities, desires, and experiences are controlled and restricted under the heterosexual gaze, which strives to ensure that human sexuality b…
Vulnerability and the (im)possibilities of becoming
Despite increasing engagement with queer theory and its literature in African scholarship, representations of transgenderism have received very little attention, relegating transgender identity to the margins of critical debates informing African queer discourses. Considering that, this article reads two transgender memoirs from South Africa – Landa Mabenge’s Becoming Him: A, Trans Memoir of Triumph and Anastacia Tomson’s Always Anastacia: A Tran…
Queering Tropical African Heteronormativity through Spirit Worlds
This article analyzes how contemporary queer African writing participates in decoloniality by queering (hetero)normative knowledge systems for social and epistemic transformation. In my reading of Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji (2020), I argue that Trans/Queer African literature participates in a very important epistemic project of counterfactualism by offering alternatives to perceived and systemically imposed African gender and sexual r…
Fiction as prosthesis
In this article, I read contemporary African queer fiction as a tool employed by writers to represent and rehumanise queer identities in Sub-Saharan African societies. In these societies, heteropatriarchal authorities strive to disable queer agency by dehumanising queer subjects. I argue that African queer identities, desires, and experiences are controlled and restricted under the heterosexual gaze, which strives to ensure that human sexuality b…
Vulnerability and the (im)possibilities of becoming
Despite increasing engagement with queer theory and its literature in African scholarship, representations of transgenderism have received very little attention, relegating transgender identity to the margins of critical debates informing African queer discourses. Considering that, this article reads two transgender memoirs from South Africa – Landa Mabenge’s Becoming Him: A, Trans Memoir of Triumph and Anastacia Tomson’s Always Anastacia: A Tran…
Fiction as prosthesis
In this article, I read contemporary African queer fiction as a tool employed by writers to represent and rehumanise queer identities in Sub-Saharan African societies. In these societies, heteropatriarchal authorities strive to disable queer agency by dehumanising queer subjects. I argue that African queer identities, desires, and experiences are controlled and restricted under the heterosexual gaze, which strives to ensure that human sexuality b…
Vulnerability and the (im)possibilities of becoming
Despite increasing engagement with queer theory and its literature in African scholarship, representations of transgenderism have received very little attention, relegating transgender identity to the margins of critical debates informing African queer discourses. Considering that, this article reads two transgender memoirs from South Africa – Landa Mabenge’s Becoming Him: A, Trans Memoir of Triumph and Anastacia Tomson’s Always Anastacia: A Tran…
Lives in Motion
This paper discusses two fictional films — Inxeba (The Wound) (2017 Trengove, J., dir. 2017. Inxeba (The Wound). Hamburg: Riva Filmproduktion. [Google Scholar]) and Rafiki (2018 Kahiu, W., dir. 2018. Rafiki. Cape Town: Big World Cinema. [Google Scholar]) — as forms of queer representation within the nascent field of queer African cinema. My analysis situates the films within discourses of globalisation with a specific interest on how theories of …
African(a) Queer Presence
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Queer cultures and African cinema
This article analyses selected documentaries about queer experiences in Uganda and Nigeria. It focuses on counter-discourses on Africa’s heterosexual normativity, advancing three perspectives. The first concerns globalization and rapid cultural exchanges enabled by various forms of mobility, which bring cultures into contact, promoting interferences. The documentaries analysed here reveal that queer African cinema and the identities it brings to …
Queering Tropical African Heteronormativity through Spirit Worlds
This article analyzes how contemporary queer African writing participates in decoloniality by queering (hetero)normative knowledge systems for social and epistemic transformation. In my reading of Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji (2020), I argue that Trans/Queer African literature participates in a very important epistemic project of counterfactualism by offering alternatives to perceived and systemically imposed African gender and sexual r…
African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Queer (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works)