{"product_id":"amphibious-subjects-sasso-and-the-contested-politics-of-queer-self-making-in-neoliberal-ghana-volume-2-9780520381858","title":"Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kwame Edwin Otu\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmphibious Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men--known in local parlance as \u003ci\u003esasso\u003c\/i\u003e--residing in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye's notion of \"amphibious personhood,\" Kwame Edwin Otu argues that sasso embody and articulate amphibious subjectivity in their self-making, creating an identity that moves beyond the homogenizing impulses of western categories of gender and sexuality. Such subjectivity simultaneously unsettles claims purported by the Christian heteronationalist state and LGBT+ human rights organizations that Ghana is predominantly heterosexual or homophobic. Weaving together personal interactions with sasso, participant observation, autoethnography, archival sources, essays from African and African-diasporic literature, and critical analyses of documentaries such as the BBC's \u003ci\u003eThe World's Worst Place to Be Gay\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmphibious Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnographic meditation on how Africa is configured as the \"heart of homophobic darkness\" in transnational LGBT+ human rights imaginaries.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46416904945815,"sku":"9780520381858","price":3359.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780520381858.webp?v=1769065179","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/amphibious-subjects-sasso-and-the-contested-politics-of-queer-self-making-in-neoliberal-ghana-volume-2-9780520381858","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}