Autorentext

Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Graz.

Klappentext

Drawing on case studies from across North, East, West, Central and Southern Africa, this book investigates the ways in which social media-enabled cultural products resist heteronormativity and project varying masculinities, femininities, and personalities which negate birth sex.

Inhalt

Foreword (Ignatius Chukwumah). 1. Gender, Performance and Digital Spaces in Africa (Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula) PART I: Transgressing Normative Gender 2. Realizing and Normalizing 'New' Gender Identities through Social Media Platforms (Dimpho Takane Maponya) 3. Subverting Gender Binaries in Kenya's Mama Fathma's Kiswahili TikTok Comedy (Wendo Nabea) 4. North African Arabic Literary Expressions of LGBTQIA+ Identity in the Digital Space (Sebastian Gadomski) 5. Digital Skit Makers and Gender Expression in Ghana: The Case of Deaconess Abokuma and Akonoba (Ellen Abakah, Abena Kyere and Cecilia Avorkliyah) PART II: Contested Masculinities on Online Sites 6. Exploring Transiting Masculinities in African Digital Literary Texts (Grace Danquah) 7. Perceptions of 'The Unfaithful Lover' and In/vulnerability in the Ztorie Bhuku Blog (Walter Kudzai Barure) 8. Re-imagining Masculinity and The Trickster Model in African Digital Acts (Nwani Treasure Okoronkwor) PART III: Call-Out Culture and Resistance 9. African Women and The Politics of Refusal in a Digital Era (Dina Ligaga) 10. The Role of Cyberbullying in Gender Identity Performance by Cameroonians Online (Camilla Arundie Tabe and Agwetang Mabel Endah) PART IV: Navigating Men's Dominance: Women and Self-Expressions 11. Women YouTube Rappers in Tunisia: Neither Manly nor Sluts, but Rap Lovers (Jyhene Kebsi*) 12. Re-assessing Feminine Portraits in Social Media Comedy Skits: The Anglophone Cameroon Context (Lynda Chinenye Ambrose)13. Female Imaging: Zambian Women Writers and The Digital Space (Shilika Chisoko)14. Gender Expressions, Digital Sites and An Inclusive Future (Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula)*