{"product_id":"amphibious-subjects-9780520381858","title":"Amphibious Subjects","description":"A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1525\/luminos.131\"\u003ewww.luminosoa.org\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"Kwame Edwin Otu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48275284001019,"sku":"9780520381858","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_27333874-40cf-4929-8391-d28d35e41167.jpg?v=1771096512","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/amphibious-subjects-9780520381858","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}