Ouzgane / Okome Men in African Film and Fiction

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84615-932-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Fills a gap in the international literature by offering new insights into the heterogeneous ways in which African men are performing, negotiating and experiencing masculinity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ouzgane, Lahoucine

Okome, Onookome

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hammond, Andrew

Bryce, Jane

Makokha, Justus K. Siboe

Thompson, Katrina Daly

Ouzgane, Lahoucine

Banco, Lindsey Michael

Epprecht, Marc

Rahman, Najat

Alden, Patricia

Stanley, Tarshia L.

Odhiambo, Tom

Knepper, Wendy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part I MAN & NATION IN AFRICA - Lahoucine Ouzgane
The anxious phallus: the iconography of impotence in Quartier Mozart & Clando - Jane Bryce
The homoerotics of nationalism: white male-on-male rape & the 'Coloured' subject in Mark Behr's The Smell of Apples - Lindsey Michael Banco
'Wild men' & emergent masculinities in post-colonial Kenyan popular fiction - Tom Odhiambo
The anonymity of manhood: unmasking shadow selves in Assia Djebar's Ombre sultane - Najat Rahman
The rape continuum: masculinities in the works of Nawal El Saadawi & Tahar Ben Jelloun PART II ALTERNATIVE MASCULINITIES - Lahoucine Ouzgane
'Coming unstuck': masculine identities in post-independence Zimbabwean fiction - Patricia Alden
Imported alternatives: changing Shona masculinities in Flame & Yellow Card - Katrina Daly Thompson
Ngugi wa Thiong'o & the crisis of Kenyan masculinity - Andrew Hammond
Father Africa: counter-narratives of masculinity in Ousmane Sembene's Faat Kiné & Moolaadé - Tarshia L. Stanley
The eternal other: authority of deficit masculinity in Asian-African literature - Justus K. Siboe Makokha
Recent trends in the treatment of homosexualities in literature & film by African artists - Marc Epprecht
Re-membering the last king of Dahomey: postcolonial masculinities & diasporic desires - Wendy Knepper