![]() Her novel, however, makes critical interventions in literary history. Okparanta joins Unoma Azuah and Lola Shoneyin as another Nigerian novelist to feature women's same sex desire in a novel. ![]() The publication of Chinelo Okparanta's Bildungsroman, Under the Udala Trees, changes this literary landscape. The genre's domination has produced some effects: (1) an emphasis on depictions connecting Africa and outer-continental locations in Europe and the United States (2) the predominance of twenty-first-century perspectives and, (3) the focus on private affective attachments or failed solidarities between individuals. This scarcity of women's same-sex sexuality in the novel has enshrined the short story as the genre in which writers stake claims about women's same-sex desire (Munro 2017). When women's same-sex desire is found, it is inevitably roomed in the short story. IMPLIED LESBIAN READERS AND AFRICAN LITERARY FEMINISMSĪlthough scholars have now acknowledged the frequency of samesex desire and same-sex relationships in African literatures, they have yet to recognize that the sexually queer subjects in African writing are overwhelmingly male.
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