Men in African Film & FictionLahoucine Ouzgane Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2011 - 180 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. Through their analysis of the depictions in film and literature of masculinities in colonial, independent and post-independent Africa, the contributors open some key African texts to a more obviously politicized set of meanings. Collectively, the essays provide space for rethinking current theory on gender and masculinity: - how only some of the most popular theories in masculinity studies in the West hold true in African contexts; - howWestern masculinities react with indigenous masculinities on the continent; - how masculinity and femininity in Africa seem to reside more on a continuum of cultural practices than on absolutely opposite planes; - andhow generation often functions as a more potent metaphor than gender. Lahoucine Ouzgane is Associate Professor of English & Film Studies, University of Alberta, Canada. |
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African Cinema African diasporic African literature African masculinity African Writers apartheid Asian Behanzin body Caribbean Chamoiseau Chinodya's Collé colonial Coloured Connell context critique cultural depicted desire discourse Djebar dominant dukawallah East Africa economic Epprecht essay Faat Kiné father female film Flame Frikkie Frikkie's gender Hajila Harare hegemonic masculinity heterosexual homophobia homosexual homosocial husband ibid identity ideology impotence Islamic Isma Isma's Johan Erasmus Kenya Kileff king Lahoucine linities literary Little-Neville M. G. Vassanji male characters manhood Marnus mascu modernity Moolaadé mother Nairobi narrative narrator nationalism Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Nhongo novel Ombre sultane Ouzgane patriarchal political postcolonial postcolonial masculinity racial rape relationship representation role scene Sembene sense sexual Shona Shona masculinity Smell of Apples Sobgui social society South Africa Spero story structure struggle studies Tiyane traditional urban Vassanji village violence virility warrior wife witchcraft wives woman women Writing Xala Zimbabwe Zimbabwean