Masculinities in African literary and cultural texts / edited by Helen Nabasuta Mugambi and Tuzyline Jita Allan ; with a foreword by Anthonia Kalu and an afterword by Simon Gikandi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mugambi, Helen Nabasuta.

Allan, Tuzyline Jita.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--History and criticism.

African literature.

African literature (English)--History and criticism.

African literature (English).

Masculinity in literature.

Literature.

Masculinity.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays.

Physical Description:

xiv, 352 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Banbury : Ayebia Clarke ; Boulder, CO : Distributed [in the U.S.] exclusively by Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010.

Contents:

Configuring masculinity in orature and film. Staging masculinity in the East African epic / Ken Walibora Waliaula

Masculinity in the West African epic / Thomas A. Hale

Men and power: masculinity in the folktales and proverbs of the Baganda / Abasi Kiyimba

'Ndabaga' Folktale revisited: (De)constructing masculinity in the post-genocide Rwandan Society / Rangira Béa Gallimore

Deploying masculinity in African oral poetic performance: the man in Udje / Tanure Ojaide

Masculinity on trial: gender anxiety in African song performances / Helen Nabasuta Mugambi

Faces of masculinity in African cinema: a case of Dani Kouyate's Sia, Le Réve du Python / Dominica Dipio

Masculinity in selected North African films: an exploration / John D.H. Downing

Penetrating Xala / Bernth Lindfors

Writing the Masculine. Rapacious masculinity: gender and ethno-colonial politics in a Swahili novel / Austin Bukenya

Masculinity in Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah / Clement A. Okafor

Dark bodies/white masks: African masculinities and visual culture in Graceland, The Joys of motherhood and Things fall apart / Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis

Sexual impotence as Metonymy for political failure: interrogating hegemonic masculinities in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa / Naana Banyiwa Horne

Virility and emasculation in Ahmadou Kourouma's novels / Siendou A. Konate

Women, men and exotopy: on the politics of scale in Nuruddin Farah's maps / Peter Hitchcock

Killing the pimp: Firdaus's challenge to masculine authority in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman in point zero / Marilyn Slutzky Zucker

The price of pleasure: K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen cents and the economics of Homosexuality in South Africa / Tim Johns

The ambivalence of masculinity in Gorgui Dieng's A Leap out of the dark / Daouda Loum

A retrospective: Looking for 'the African' in the hybrid: thoughts on masculinity in Equiano's The Interesting narrative / Tuzyline Jita Allan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Masculinities in African literary and cultural texts.

ISBN:

9780955507953

0955507952

OCLC:

423593486