C Zabus
Biographic Data
| ID | 41593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Zabus |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Zabus |
| SIGNATURE | ZABUS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Sorbonne Paris Nord |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4468-3731 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Maran Among the Anthropologists: The Banda Rituals of Circumcision and Excision in Batouala
After providing the colonial and anthropological context for the Bandas’ Ga’nza rituals of male circumcision and female excision and commenting on the “excision” of such rituals from the first (1922) translation of Batouala (1921), the article analyses Maran’s partial rendition of the rites, while pitting it against two later anthropological texts, published in the same year (1938), i. e. Jomo Kenyatta’s Facing Mount Kenya and A. M. Vergiat’s Les…
Hijras, Sangomas, and their Translects: Trans(lat)ing India and South Africa
This essay focuses on hijras in India and on male women sangomas in Zulu gender-differentiated possession cults in South Africa. We approach these individuals through the travelling concept of “translects”, in the sense in which hijras and sangomas as “transgender individuals” cultivating a culture-specific, gender liminality use words to refer to themselves, their body parts, sexual orientation, societal rituals and practices, usually not in the…
Souhir Zekri Masson. Mapping Metabiographical Heartlands in Marina Warner's Fiction
Souhir Zekri’s book makes up for the relative neglect around British author and public intellectual Marina Warner’s oeuvre, which started receiving critical attention only a decade and a half ago
Anthropological Wormholes: From Pederasts to Female Husbands
Locating Transnational Ideals
International audience
Out in Africa: Same-Sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures & Cultures
Homophobia is still rife and it remains dangerous and even life-threatening to be out in Africa, but Chantal Zabus here traces the range of representations of same-sex desire in Africa through historic and contemporary sources. Homosexuality was and still is thought to be quintessentially 'un-African'. Yet in this book Chantal Zabus examines the anthropological, cultural and literary representations of male and female same-sex desire in a pan-Afr…
Emerging Traditions: Toward a Postcolonial Stylistics of Black South African Fiction in English
Out in Africa: Queer Desire in Some Anthropological and Literary Texts
International audience
Against All Odds: A Documentary (DVD)
Reviewed by: Against All Odds: A Documentary (DVD) Chantal Zabus Against All Odds: A Documentary (DVD) Produced by the Audio Visual Institute of Eritrea (AVIE). African Books Collective/Michigan State UP, 2007. ISBN 1904855865-9781904855866. Eritrea—from the Latin Mare Erythraeum,or the Red Sea—was an Italian colony from 1890 to 1952, when it became part of Ethiopia, to then become fully independent in 1993. From 11 to 17 January 2000, when the “…
Of Female Husbands and Boarding School Girls: Gender Bending in Unoma Azuah's Fiction
While Azuah's novel Sky-High Flames () is firmly grounded in the Igbo sociological context, comprising ancestor worship, the cult of a female goddess, polygamy, and the levirate, the novel taps into the practice of female husbandry documented by cultural anthropologists (e.g., Sylvia Leith-Ross and Ifi Amadiume, whose theories I reassess), previous West African literary attempts at representing lesbian seduction, as well relational nexuses within…
Beyond Circumspection’ African, Jewish, and Muslim Autobiographies Around Circumcision
International audience
The West African Palimpsest: Case-Studies in Relexification
(M)Other Tongue and the Third Code
Towards Othering the Foreign Language
Glottopolitics and Diglossia in West Africa
Tables and Figures
Pidginization and Multilingual Strategies
The Visible Trace and Beyond
The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel. Second Enlarged Edition
Uniting a sense of the political dimensions of language appropriation with a serious, yet accessible linguistic terminology, The African Palimpsest examines the strategies of ‘indigenization’ whereby West African writers have made their literary English or French distinctively ‘African’. Through the apt metaphor of the palimpsest – a surface that has been written on, written over, partially erased and written over again – the book examines such w…
Informed Consent: Ezenwa–Ohaeto between Past and Future Uses of Pidgin
The essay shows how Ezenwa–Ohaeto's poetry in pidgin, particularly in his collection (1988), emblematizes a linguistic interface between, on the one hand, the pseudo-pidgin of Onitsha Market pamphleteers of the 1950s and 1960s (including in its gendered guise as in Cyprian Ekwensi) and, on the other, its quasicreolized form in contemporary news and television and radio dramas as well as a potential first language. While locating Nigerian Pidgin o…
Writing women's rites
West African Popular Theatre
Francophone African Women Writers: Destroying the Emptiness of Silence
French-speaking African women traditionally expressed their creativity through oral storytelling. Previously silent in print, today they also speak through the written word, and their stories constitute one of the most significant recent developments in African literature. Irene Assiba d'Almeida dates this emerging phenomenon to 1969, the year Kuoh-Moukouri's Rencontres essentielles was published. A few more books by women were published in the '…
The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel
The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of language in the West African Europhone Novel
The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel. Second Enlarged Edition
Uniting a sense of the political dimensions of language appropriation with a serious, yet accessible linguistic terminology, The African Palimpsest examines the strategies of ‘indigenization’ whereby West African writers have made their literary English or French distinctively ‘African’. Through the apt metaphor of the palimpsest – a surface that has been written on, written over, partially erased and written over again – the book examines such w…
Francophone African Women Writers: Destroying the Emptiness of Silence
French-speaking African women traditionally expressed their creativity through oral storytelling. Previously silent in print, today they also speak through the written word, and their stories constitute one of the most significant recent developments in African literature. Irene Assiba d'Almeida dates this emerging phenomenon to 1969, the year Kuoh-Moukouri's Rencontres essentielles was published. A few more books by women were published in the '…
The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of language in the West African Europhone Novel
Of Female Husbands and Boarding School Girls: Gender Bending in Unoma Azuah's Fiction
While Azuah's novel Sky-High Flames () is firmly grounded in the Igbo sociological context, comprising ancestor worship, the cult of a female goddess, polygamy, and the levirate, the novel taps into the practice of female husbandry documented by cultural anthropologists (e.g., Sylvia Leith-Ross and Ifi Amadiume, whose theories I reassess), previous West African literary attempts at representing lesbian seduction, as well relational nexuses within…
Out in Africa: Queer Desire in Some Anthropological and Literary Texts
International audience
Writing women's rites
West African Popular Theatre
The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of language in the West African Europhone Novel
The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel
Francophone African Women Writers: Destroying the Emptiness of Silence
French-speaking African women traditionally expressed their creativity through oral storytelling. Previously silent in print, today they also speak through the written word, and their stories constitute one of the most significant recent developments in African literature. Irene Assiba d'Almeida dates this emerging phenomenon to 1969, the year Kuoh-Moukouri's Rencontres essentielles was published. A few more books by women were published in the '…
West African Popular Theatre
Writing women's rites
Informed Consent: Ezenwa–Ohaeto between Past and Future Uses of Pidgin
The essay shows how Ezenwa–Ohaeto's poetry in pidgin, particularly in his collection (1988), emblematizes a linguistic interface between, on the one hand, the pseudo-pidgin of Onitsha Market pamphleteers of the 1950s and 1960s (including in its gendered guise as in Cyprian Ekwensi) and, on the other, its quasicreolized form in contemporary news and television and radio dramas as well as a potential first language. While locating Nigerian Pidgin o…
The West African Palimpsest: Case-Studies in Relexification
(M)Other Tongue and the Third Code
Towards Othering the Foreign Language
Glottopolitics and Diglossia in West Africa
Tables and Figures
Pidginization and Multilingual Strategies
The Visible Trace and Beyond
The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel. Second Enlarged Edition
Uniting a sense of the political dimensions of language appropriation with a serious, yet accessible linguistic terminology, The African Palimpsest examines the strategies of ‘indigenization’ whereby West African writers have made their literary English or French distinctively ‘African’. Through the apt metaphor of the palimpsest – a surface that has been written on, written over, partially erased and written over again – the book examines such w…
Against All Odds: A Documentary (DVD)
Reviewed by: Against All Odds: A Documentary (DVD) Chantal Zabus Against All Odds: A Documentary (DVD) Produced by the Audio Visual Institute of Eritrea (AVIE). African Books Collective/Michigan State UP, 2007. ISBN 1904855865-9781904855866. Eritrea—from the Latin Mare Erythraeum,or the Red Sea—was an Italian colony from 1890 to 1952, when it became part of Ethiopia, to then become fully independent in 1993. From 11 to 17 January 2000, when the “…
Of Female Husbands and Boarding School Girls: Gender Bending in Unoma Azuah's Fiction
While Azuah's novel Sky-High Flames () is firmly grounded in the Igbo sociological context, comprising ancestor worship, the cult of a female goddess, polygamy, and the levirate, the novel taps into the practice of female husbandry documented by cultural anthropologists (e.g., Sylvia Leith-Ross and Ifi Amadiume, whose theories I reassess), previous West African literary attempts at representing lesbian seduction, as well relational nexuses within…
Beyond Circumspection’ African, Jewish, and Muslim Autobiographies Around Circumcision
International audience
Out in Africa: Queer Desire in Some Anthropological and Literary Texts
International audience
Emerging Traditions: Toward a Postcolonial Stylistics of Black South African Fiction in English
Anthropological Wormholes: From Pederasts to Female Husbands
Locating Transnational Ideals
International audience
Out in Africa: Same-Sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures & Cultures
Homophobia is still rife and it remains dangerous and even life-threatening to be out in Africa, but Chantal Zabus here traces the range of representations of same-sex desire in Africa through historic and contemporary sources. Homosexuality was and still is thought to be quintessentially 'un-African'. Yet in this book Chantal Zabus examines the anthropological, cultural and literary representations of male and female same-sex desire in a pan-Afr…
Souhir Zekri Masson. Mapping Metabiographical Heartlands in Marina Warner's Fiction
Souhir Zekri’s book makes up for the relative neglect around British author and public intellectual Marina Warner’s oeuvre, which started receiving critical attention only a decade and a half ago
Maran Among the Anthropologists: The Banda Rituals of Circumcision and Excision in Batouala
After providing the colonial and anthropological context for the Bandas’ Ga’nza rituals of male circumcision and female excision and commenting on the “excision” of such rituals from the first (1922) translation of Batouala (1921), the article analyses Maran’s partial rendition of the rites, while pitting it against two later anthropological texts, published in the same year (1938), i. e. Jomo Kenyatta’s Facing Mount Kenya and A. M. Vergiat’s Les…
Hijras, Sangomas, and their Translects: Trans(lat)ing India and South Africa
This essay focuses on hijras in India and on male women sangomas in Zulu gender-differentiated possession cults in South Africa. We approach these individuals through the travelling concept of “translects”, in the sense in which hijras and sangomas as “transgender individuals” cultivating a culture-specific, gender liminality use words to refer to themselves, their body parts, sexual orientation, societal rituals and practices, usually not in the…
History (16 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · African history and culture studies (9 works) · Art (9 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works)