Queer African Cinemas (Lindsey B. Green-Simms)

Lindsey Green-Simms has been a leading interlocutor in queer African studies with a specialisation in queer African cinemas.Queer African Cinemas (2022) buttresses the comprehensive work that she has done in examining the representation of queer lived experiences in and through African films.Her previous work has focused on representations of queerness in West African cinemas, with a particular focus on Nollywood films (films produced in Nigeria) (see "Hustlers, Home-wreckers and Homoeroticism: Nollywood's Beautiful Faces" [2012] and "Queer African Cinema, Queer World Cinema" [2018]).Queer African Cinemas marks an important and considerable expansion of this work by focusing on other regions of the African continent such as East Africa and South Africa.Green-Simms does not attempt to include North Africa in this book, because of the particular "linguistic, cultural, historical, and political differences that North Africa" presents, which makes this region fall beyond her "field of expertise" (214).Incidentally, my own work has focused on the "marginalisation, muting, and omission of the Maghreb from discourses that attempt to articulate non-conforming gender and sexual identities in Africa" (Ncube, "Renegotiating the Marginality of the Maghreb in Queer African Studies" 624) by focusing on queer representations in films from the Maghreb (see also Ncube, "Skin and Silence in Selected Maghrebian Queer Films").

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