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Queer Rattling: The Postcolony and Blasphemous Displacements

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This chapter takes on the analysis of Karmen Gei and the context of the postcolony to leverage a critique of not just homophobia, but of specific modes of queer presentation that are equally problematic also. Counterintuitively, the chapter shows how queerness works paradoxically and with strange bedfellows. Religion in general, and the Catholic Church in particular, is cast in new lights that show openness to fulfilling its highest call to serve and love humanity first.

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  1. Vulnerability and Human Condition, Emory University, Atlanta, USA

    S. N. Nyeck

  2. Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation, CriSHET, Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

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Nyeck, S.N. (2021). Queer Rattling: The Postcolony and Blasphemous Displacements. In: African(a) Queer Presence. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61225-6_4

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