Identifications homosexuelles, construction identitaire et tensions postcoloniales entre le Cameroun et la France
The article aims at problematizing the circulation of the homosexual identity between western world and Africa. Growing up on the Cameroonian example, it shows how the debate on homosexuality is shaped by the “postcolonial tensions”, especially by focusing on the “moral war” witch is supposed to opp...
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Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes
2011-05-01
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| description | The article aims at problematizing the circulation of the homosexual identity between western world and Africa. Growing up on the Cameroonian example, it shows how the debate on homosexuality is shaped by the “postcolonial tensions”, especially by focusing on the “moral war” witch is supposed to oppose the two spaces. After paying particular attention to the “sexual identifications” in context, the paper try to grasp the situation of “(homo) sexual refugees” who escape from Cameroon, but who still face a “sexual identity” problem in France. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ee43a567dc6847fda18403d1b671f6dd2022-12-22T02:54:48ZengUniversité de Reims Champagne-ArdennesL'Espace Politique1958-55002011-05-011310.4000/espacepolitique.1818Identifications homosexuelles, construction identitaire et tensions postcoloniales entre le Cameroun et la FrancePatrick AwondoThe article aims at problematizing the circulation of the homosexual identity between western world and Africa. Growing up on the Cameroonian example, it shows how the debate on homosexuality is shaped by the “postcolonial tensions”, especially by focusing on the “moral war” witch is supposed to oppose the two spaces. After paying particular attention to the “sexual identifications” in context, the paper try to grasp the situation of “(homo) sexual refugees” who escape from Cameroon, but who still face a “sexual identity” problem in France.http://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/1818sexual identitysexual identificationsexual migrationsexual refugeeCameroon |
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| title | Identifications homosexuelles, construction identitaire et tensions postcoloniales entre le Cameroun et la France |
| title_full | Identifications homosexuelles, construction identitaire et tensions postcoloniales entre le Cameroun et la France |
| title_fullStr | Identifications homosexuelles, construction identitaire et tensions postcoloniales entre le Cameroun et la France |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identifications homosexuelles, construction identitaire et tensions postcoloniales entre le Cameroun et la France |
| title_short | Identifications homosexuelles, construction identitaire et tensions postcoloniales entre le Cameroun et la France |
| title_sort | identifications homosexuelles construction identitaire et tensions postcoloniales entre le cameroun et la france |
| topic | sexual identity sexual identification sexual migration sexual refugee Cameroon |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/1818 |
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