The Specter of Blackness
Queering Sudanese Masculinities in the Black Atlantic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3325680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Natassja B Gunasena (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 89-104 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Callaloo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-2492 • E-ISSN: 1080-6512 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cal.2025.a967119 |
| OpenAlex | W4413239201 |
| Language | EN |
This article reads the life and work of British-Sudanese actor Alexander Siddig ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Game of Thrones , Shantaram ) alongside the 1966 English translation of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North . Tracing the abstraction and obfuscation of Blackness in public and scholarly imaginaries, this essay suggests we use the literatures and theories of the Black Atlantic-with their richly fluid repertoire of ghosts, tricksters, and mirrors-to read the Sudanese masculinities in Siddig and Salih's work as simultaneously Black, diasporic, and queer
Art · Literature · Queer · Repertoire · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |