The Politics of "Queer Reading" an Ethiopian Saint and Discovering Precolonial Queer Africans.

This article asks what it means to discover Africans through our sexual desires, and how that might shape the way the West knows both women and queer people. I closely read Wendy Belcher's interpretations of the sexual life of Wälättä P̣eṭros, a seventeenth-century Ethiopian female saint. While the...

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Published in:	Journal of African Cultural Studies Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 98 - 111
Main Author:	Debele, Serawit
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2022
Subjects:	Africa LGBTQ+ people Sexual minority women Africans Ethiopians
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost