C L Quinan African History Books sku-187934645 Hardcover

C L Quinan's Hybrid Anxieties is a hardcover title listed under African History Books, SKU sku-187934645. Bringing queer theory and postcolonial studies together, it examines identity and artistic form after the French-Algerian War (1954 to 1962). Quinan argues that challenges to dominant masculinity emerged alongside queer ways of understanding subjectivity, bodies and memory.

Through novels, films and poetry, the book considers how decolonization changed politics and aesthetics, and how the postwar rupture affected people and artistic forms in both beneficial and harmful ways. It explores gender, sexuality and nationality while keeping the war's violence and trauma in view.

Quinan also proposes a form of hybridity shaped by queer desire and a less linear understanding of past, present and future.