Contested Masculinities

Crises in Colonial Male Identity from Joseph Conrad to Satyajit Ray
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-99843-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 388 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Exploring how English masculinity - that was so contingent on the relative health of the British imperial project - negotiated the decline and ultimate dissolution of the empire by the middle of the twentieth century, this book argues that by defining itself in relation to indigenous masculinity, English masculinity began to share a common idiom with its colonial other. The rhetoric of indigenous masculinity, therefore, both mimicked and departed from its metropolitan counterpart. The study combines an interdisciplinary approach with a focus that is not limited to a single colonial society but ranges from colonial Bengal, Burma, Borneo and finally to colonial Australia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jayasena, Nalin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations. Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Crises in Colonial Male Identity 2. Making English-Men and Unmaking Empire in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim 3. Performing Masculinity, Playing Cricket: "Bodyline" and Late-Imperial British Identity 4. Of Clubs and Concubines: Reading Imperial Authority in George Orwell’s Burmese Days 5. Desire is for Men who are Men: The Politics of Masculinity in Satyajit Ray’s The Home and the World. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nalin Jayasena