Men in African film & fiction
By: edited by Lahoucine Ouzgane
Publisher: James Currey
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781847015211
Subjects: Motion pictures; Masculinity in literature; History and criticism; Men in motion pictures; Men in literature; Masculinity in motion pictures; African fiction; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Man & nation in Africa.; title: The anxious phallus: the iconography of impotence in Quartier Mozart & Clando  -- Jane Bryce ;; title: The homoerotics of nationalism: white male-on-male rape & the "coloured" subject in Mark Behr's The smell of apples  -- Lindsey Michael Banco ;; title: "Wild men" & emergent masculinities in post-colonial Kenyan popular fiction  -- Tom Odhiambo ;; title: The anonymity of manhood: unmasking shadow selves in Assia Djebar's Ombre sultane  -- Najat Rahman ;; title: The rape continuum: masculinities in the works of Nawal El Saadawi & Tahar Ben Jelloun  -- Lahoucine Ouzgane -- pt. 2.; title: Alternative masculinities.; title: "Coming unstuck": masculine identities in post-independence Zimbabwean fiction  -- Patricia Alden ;; title: Imported alternatives: changing Shona masculinities in Flame & Yellow card  -- Katrina Daly Thompson ;; title: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo & the crisis of Kenyan masculinity  -- Andrew Hammond ;; title: Father Africa: counter-narratives of masculinity in Sembene's Faat Kiné & Moolaadé  -- Tarshia L. Stanley ;; title: The eternal other: the authority of deficit masculinity in Asian-African literature  -- Justus K. Siboe Makokha ;; title: Recent trends in the treatment of homosexualities in literature & film by African artists  -- Marc Epprecht ;; title: Re-membering the last king of Dahomey: African masculinities & diasporic desires -- Wendy Knepper.