Men & masculinities in African film & fiction
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.
Print Book, English, 2007
James Currey, Oxford, 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
pages cm
9781847015211, 9781847015204, 1847015212, 1847015204
132313257
Introduction Part I MAN & NATION IN AFRICA - Lahoucine OuzganeThe anxious phallus: the iconography of impotence in Quartier Mozart & Clando - Jane BryceThe 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 OdhiamboThe anonymity of manhood: unmasking shadow selves in Assia Djebar's Ombre sultane - Najat RahmanThe 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 AldenImported alternatives: changing Shona masculinities in Flame & Yellow Card - Katrina Daly ThompsonNgugi wa Thiong'o & the crisis of Kenyan masculinity - Andrew HammondFather Africa: counter-narratives of masculinity in Ousmane Sembene's Faat Kiné & Moolaadé - Tarshia L. StanleyThe eternal other: authority of deficit masculinity in Asian-African literature - Justus K. Siboe MakokhaRecent trends in the treatment of homosexualities in literature & film by African artists - Marc EpprechtRe-membering the last king of Dahomey: postcolonial masculinities & diasporic desires - Wendy Knepper