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Dear screen-L Subscribers,

We would like to announce a new publication from Duke University Press, which we hope will be of interest.

Queer African Cinemas
Lindsey B. Green-Simms

https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478018018/queer-african-cinemas/

Receive a 20% discount online*:
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*Valid until 11:59 GMT, 31st December 2022. Discount only applies to the CAP website.

“Conceptually rich and deeply pedagogical, Queer African Cinemas models how to think about African queer worldmaking. Lindsey B. Green-Simms wrenches resistance away from heteronormative duty and national obligation to track its wayward possibilities. Resistance is no longer an exhausted term that excludes African queers, but one that centers African queer practices and freedoms. Green-Simms listens for how African queer audiences navigate representation and find succor even in hostile places. A joy to read.” - Keguro Macharia, author of Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora
“Lindsey B. Green-Simms’s compelling insights prod us to think about resistance as multilayered, incomplete, and even messy in ways that reveal how the vulnerabilities of queer life exist alongside multiple modes of survival, care, and aspirational imaginaries. Queer African Cinemas is engaging, generative, and remarkably persuasive.” – Grace A. Musila, author of A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder
In Queer African Cinemas, Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century in an environment of increasing antiqueer violence, efforts to criminalize homosexuality, and other state-sanctioned homophobia. Green-Simms argues that these films not only record the fear, anxiety, and vulnerability many queer Africans experience; they highlight how queer African cinematic practices contribute to imagining new hopes and possibilities. Examining globally circulating international art films as well as popular melodramas made for local audiences, Green-Simms emphasizes that in these films queer resistance—contrary to traditional narratives about resistance that center overt and heroic struggle—is often practiced from a position of vulnerability. By reading queer films alongside discussions about censorship and audiences, Green-Simms renders queer African cinema as a rich visual archive that documents the difficulty of queer existence as well as the potentials for queer life-building and survival.
Lindsey B. Green-Simms is Associate Professor of Literature at American University and author of Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa.
With all best wishes,

Combined Academic Publishers



Duke University Press | a Camera Obscura book | March 2022 | 264pp | 9781478018018 | PB | £21.99*
*Price subject to change.









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