Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana Volume 2

by Kwame Edwin Otu

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Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men--known in local parlance as sasso--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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520381858
• ISBN13: 9780520381858
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"