Masculinities in African Literary and Cultural Texts
Helen Nabasuta Mugambi and Tuzyline Jita Allan | | ISBN: 978-0-9555079-5-3
$27.50 |
| 2010/352 pages Distributed for Ayebia Clarke Publishing |
DESCRIPTION
Focusing on the ways in which men are produced, represented, and problematized in African literary and other cultural expression, Masculinities in African Literary and Cultural Texts represents a ground-breaking intervention in a field that is largely woman-centered. The book, with its multigenre approach, will serve as a vital and much-needed resource for both scholars and students.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Helen Nabasuta Mugambi is associate professor of English and comparative literature at California State University, Fullerton. Tuzyline Jita Allan is professor of English at Baruch College.
CONTENTS
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Preface—A.C. Kalu.
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Introduction—the Editors.
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CONFIGURING MASCULINITY IN ORATURE AND FILM.
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Staging Masculinity in the East African Epic—K.W. Waliaula.
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Masculinity in the West African Epic—T.A. Hale.
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Men and Power: Masculinity in the Folktales and Proverbs of the Baganda—A. Kiyimba.
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"Ndabaga" Folktale Revisited: (De)Constructing Masculinity in Post-Genocide Rwandan Society—R.B. Gallimore.
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Deploying Masculinity in African Oral Poetic Peformance: The Man in Udje—T. Ojaide.
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Masculinity on Trial: Gender Anxiety in African Song Performances—H.N. Mugambi.
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Faces of Masculinity in African Cinema: Dani Kouyate's Sia, Le Rêve du Python—D. Dipio.
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Masculinity in Selected North African Films: An Exploration—J.D.H. Downing.
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Penetrating Xala—B. Lindfors.
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WRITING THE MASCULINE.
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Rapacious Masculinity and Ethno-Colonial Politics in a Swahili Novel—A. Bukenya.
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Masculinity in Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah—C.A. Okafor.
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Dark Bodies/White Masks: African Masculinities and Visual Culture in Graceland, The Joys of Motherhood and Things Fall Apart—G. Etter-Lewis.
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Sexual Impotence as Metonymy for Political Failure: Interrogating Hegemonic Masculinities in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa—N.B. Horne.
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Virility and Emasculation in Ahmadou Kourouma's Novels—S.A. Konate.
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Women, Men, and Exotopy: On the Politics of Scale in Nuruddin Farah's Maps—P. Hitchcock.
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Killing the Pimp: Firadaus's Challenge to Masculine Authority in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero—M.S. Zucker.
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The Price of Pleasure: K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents and the Economics of Homosexuality in South Africa—T. Johns.
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The Ambivalence of Masculinity in Gorgui Dieng's A Leap Out of the Dark—D. Loum.
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A Retrospective: Looking for 'the African' in the Hybrid: Thoughts on Masculinity in Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative—T.J. Allan.
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Afterword: Masculinities in African Literary and Cultural Texts—S. Gikandi.
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"This impressive collection provides many answers and is destined to become a staple in the library."—Carole Boyce Davies, Cornell University
"Offers important insights that both clarify and complicate our hitherto stereotypical notions of masculinities in Africa."—Kofi Anyidoho, University of Ghana, Legon
"Every chapter here makes a significant contribution to the growing theoretical and analytical scholarship in the field. The editors deserve commendation for putting together important materials that have opened up a new dimension in Cultural and Gender Studies."—Abdul-Rasheed N'Allah, Kawara State University