Constructions of masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa : literature, film, and national discourse / edited by Mohja Kahf and Nadine Sinno.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kahf, Mohja, 1967- editor.

Sinno, Nadine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity in literature.

Masculinity in motion pictures.

Masculinity in popular culture.

Masculinity--Middle East.

Masculinity.

Masculinity--Africa, North.

Masculinity in art.

Middle East.

North Africa.

Genre:

Art.

Physical Description:

xv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2021.

Summary:

Constructions of masculinity are constantly evolving and being resisted in the Middle East and North Africa. This book examines constructions of both hegemonic and marginalized masculinities in the MENA region, through literary criticism, film studies, discourse analysis, anthropological accounts, and studies of military culture. This book spans the colonial and postcolonial eras with emphasis on the late twentieth century to the present day.

Contents:

Introduction: colonial to postcolonial masculinities in the Middle East and North Africa

Exotic and benighted, or modern yet victimized? The modern predicament of the Arab queer

Of heros and men: the crisis of masculinity in the post-Oslo Palestinian narrative

"I get to deflower at least one. It's my right!": the precariousness of hegemonic masculinity in Rashid Al-Daif's Who's Afraid of Meryl Streep?

Crises of masculinity in Huba Barakat's war literature

Mahfouz, al-Mutanabbi, and the canon: poetics of deviance from the masculine nationalist discourse of al-Sukkariya

Diasporic queer Arabs in Europe and North America: sexual citizenship and narratives of inclusion and exclusion

Of knives, mustaches, and headgears: the fall of the Qabaday in Zakariya Tamir's latest works

Romancing Middle Eastern men in North and South America: two mid-century texts

Tough guys, martyrs, dandies, and marginalized men: changing masculine roles in Iranian cinema

Men and modernity in postcolonial Tunisian cinema

Construction of masculinity in Palestinian film

Gendered politics in late nineteenth-century Egyptian nationalist discourse

Men at work: the politics of professional pride in Ottoman Beirut

"You are like a virus": dangerous bodies and military medical authority in Turkey

Gendered memories and masculinities: Kurdish Peshmerga on the Anfa campaign in Iraq

Militarist masculinity, militarist feminity: a gendered analysis Jordan's war on the Islamic State.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Container of: Anderson, Jedidiah. Exotic and benighted, or modern yet victimized?

ISBN:

9789774169755

9774169751

OCLC:

1205588748