Pt. 1. Man & nation in Africa. The anxious phallus: the iconography of impotence in Quartier Mozart & Clando / Jane Bryce ; The homoerotics of nationalism: white male-on-male rape & the "coloured" subject in Mark Behr's The smell of apples / Lindsey Michael Banco ; "Wild men" & emergent masculinities in post-colonial Kenyan popular fiction / Tom Odhiambo ; The anonymity of manhood: unmasking shadow selves in Assia Djebar's Ombre sultane / Najat Rahman ; The rape continuum: masculinities in the works of Nawal El Saadawi & Tahar Ben Jelloun / Lahoucine Ouzgane -- pt. 2. Alternative masculinities. "Coming unstuck": masculine identities in post-independence Zimbabwean fiction / Patricia Alden ; Imported alternatives: changing Shona masculinities in Flame & Yellow card / Katrina Daly Thompson ; Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo & the crisis of Kenyan masculinity / Andrew Hammond ; Father Africa: counter-narratives of masculinity in Sembene's Faat Kiné & Moolaadé / Tarshia L. Stanley ; The eternal other: the authority of deficit masculinity in Asian-African literature / Justus K. Siboe Makokha ; Recent trends in the treatment of homosexualities in literature & film by African artists / Marc Epprecht ; Re-membering the last king of Dahomey: African masculinities & diasporic desires / Wendy Knepper
Summary
Through their analysis of the depictions in film and literature of masculinities in colonial, independent and post-independent Africa, the contributors open some key African texts to a more obviously politicized set of meanings. Features essays which provide space for rethinking current theory on gender and masculinity
