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SUMMARY:Same Sex Cultures and Pariah Formations in North Africa  - Profess
 or Caroline Rooney &amp\; Dr Julia Borossa\, University of Kent &amp\; Mid
 dlesex University
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:This Talk is part of the Centre of African Studies Lent term S
 eminar Series: Gender in Africa \n\nThis paper takes up the arguments of J
 oseph Massad’s Desiring Arabs concerning the cultural imperialism of the
  Western gay rights movement. In particular\, Massad contests the discursi
 ve universalization of gay rights with respect to how this discourse fails
  to register the difference between dualist and non-dualist systems of tho
 ught\, while further failing to attend sufficiently to the local articulat
 ions and sensitivities of different cultures. Responding to some of the cr
 itiques of Massad’s position on the part of the gay international\, we g
 o on to explore how North African literary and cultural texts dramatize sa
 me sex subjectivities and relationships in ways that resonate with the con
 cerns of Desiring Arabs.
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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