Contested masculinities
Subtitle: crises in colonial male identity from Joseph Conrad to Satyajit Ray
By: Nalin Jayasena.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780415975483
Subjects: Masculinity in literature; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism; National characteristics, English, in literature; Gender identity in literature; Men in literature; Colonies in literature
Description: This work examines how English masculinity was contested by feminism, nationalism in colonies, and homosexuality.
Notes: Crises in colonial male identity -- Making English-men and unmaking empire in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim -- Performing masculinity, playing cricket: Bodyline and late-imperial British identity -- Of clubs and concubines: reading imperial authority in George Orwell's Burmese Days -- Desire is for men who are men: the politics of masculinity in Satyajit Ray's The Home and the World.

This work examines how English masculinity was contested by feminism, nationalism in colonies, and homosexuality.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-243) and index.