Know your history
Toward an eternally displaceable strategic essentialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12910029 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oreoluwa Olaniyan (0000-0002-2303-9181, University of Utah, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 305-319 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-3065 • E-ISSN: 1751-3057 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17513057.2021.1957139 |
| OpenAlex | W3188327225 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 29 |
Queer Africans in diaspora often reclaim histories obscured by colonialism. Implicit in gay Nigerian activist Bisi Alimi's influential archival work is an anti-colonial, but strategically essentialist, claim of a historical place for queer African peoples. I submit "historical place" and "(dis)placing" to understand queer disidentifications with historical construction. The risks of strategic essentialism can become epistemological opportunities for identity building. My analysis first traces how strategic essentialism persuasively constructs historical place and then explores how (dis)placing unsettles epistemological constructions of queer African identity. Advocating for a recognition of multiplicity, I encourage scholars to understand (dis)placing as complex vernacular discursive strategy that produces further possibilities for belonging and anti-colonial imagination
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Colonialism · Diaspora · Essentialism · Identity (music · Queer · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Philosophy
Places of Public Memory
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory
Impossible Desires
The Transit of Empire
Local Histories/Global Designs
Local Histories/Global Designs
Discursive negotiations of Kenyan LGBTI identities
Born This Way”
Delinking Rhetoric, or Revisiting McGee’s Fragmentation Thesis through Decoloniality
Disidentifications Revisited
Postcolonial Interventions in the Rhetorical Canon
Vocabularies of the non-normative
Archive and method in Queer African Studies
The Epistemology of the Question of Authenticity, in Place of Strategic Essentialism
The critique of vernacular discourse
Miri ya Mikongoei 1
An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Location Matters
In other worlds
Postcolonial and decolonial dialogues
Looking for M
Same-Sex Relationships in Yorùbá Culture and Orature
Entre las aguas/Between the Waters
Invading ethnography
Homi Bhabha's Third Space and African identity
Delinking
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |