ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes contemporary African transgender texts as an explicit articulation of 21st-century African feminism: that the meaning of the body is not fixed, but fluid and is generated by a person’s lived experience; and that it is imperative to redefine African femininity so that African women no longer feel a deep dissonance between their sex, sexuality, and their assigned gender. Read through the lens of queer theory and French poststructuralist feminism, it shows how these African texts destabilize the boundaries between African and Western feminist frameworks to constitute their protagonists’ gender identities through a real or imaginary encounter with otherness.
