Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction

by Karen Martin (Editor), Makhosazana Xaba (Editor)

Overview

This collection draws together twenty-five stories selected from two ground breaking anthologies published by MaThoko Books, an imprint of Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA) in South Africa. The first volume, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction won the 26th Lambda Literary Award. In 2017 Queer Africa 2: New fiction added fresh material to the LGBTIQA+ literary landscape. Stories from Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Botswana, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe celebrate the diversity and fluidity of queer and African identifications and expressions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780264639
Publisher:	New Internationalist
Publication date:	10/28/2018
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Karen Martin is a fiction writer, collage artist and professional editor. She has initiated and developed several projects for GALA, including Balancing Act, a book and exhibition of South African lgbti youth life stories. She is the co-editor of Sex and Politics, a collection of essays, memoirs and archival documents about the South African LGBTI rights movement and the anti-apartheid struggle.

Makhosazana Xaba is a poet and author. Her poetry has been anthologized widely and translated into various languages. She is the editor of Like the untouchable wind: An anthology of poems. Her collection of fiction, Running & other stories, won the SALA Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award in 2014. Xaba holds an MA in Writing (with distinction) from The University of the Witwatersrand.