Anonymity and Agency: Transformative Sexuality Discourse in Hausa Digital Prose Fiction

Hybrid: SOAS campus and on Zoom

This talk will be led by Dr Zaynab Ango, a British Academy International Visiting Fellowship from Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Abuja, Nigeria. 

Dr Ango will focus on contemporary Hausa fiction writers’ appropriation of digital media, engaging with the anonymity afforded by digital publishing platforms, which has led to an unprecedented emergence of queer-themed narratives which challenge the established religious and cultural rules of morality that has previously stifled literary freedom in Hausa literature.  She will also discuss how authors are creatively transgressing, interrogating and reconstructing cultural and religious norms regarding gender and sexuality in their works.  

Dr Ango has recently published an article in the Journal of the African Literature Association: 'Anonymous authors, sex, and sexuality in Hausa digital prose fiction'.

Chair: Dr Carmen McCain, SOAS University of London
 

Image courtesy of speaker