Manning the Nation. Father Figures in Zimbabwean Literature and Society

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Gender studies in Zimbabwe have tended to focus on women and their comparative disadvantages and under-privilege. Assuming a broader perspective is necessary at a time when society has grown used to arguments rooted in binaries: colonised and coloniser, race and class, sex and gender, poverty and we...

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Autor principal: Muchemwa, Kizito Z.
Otros Autores: Muponde, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Weaver Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Litterature > Histoire et critique.
Literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; About the Contributors; Introduction
  • Manning the Nation; I
  • 'Why don't you tell the children a story?': Father figures in three Zimbabwean short stories; 2
  • Killing fathers; 3
  • Of fathers and ancestors in Charles Mungoshi's; 4
  • 'Sins of the Fathers': Revealing family secrets in Mungoshi's later fiction; 5
  • The strong healthy man: AIDS and self-delusion; 6
  • Fatherhood and nationhood: Joshua Nkomo and the re-imagination of the Zimbabwe nation; 7
  • Mai Mujuru: father of the nation?
  • 8
  • Masculinities, race and violence in the making of Zimbabwe9
  • It couldn't be anything innocent: Negotiating gender in patriarchal-racial spaces; 10
  • 'Boys': Performing manhood in Zimbabwean drama; 11
  • 'A man can try': Negotiating manhoods in colonial urban spaces in Dambudzo Marechera's; 12
  • The nature of fatherhood and manhood in Zimbabwean texts of pre-colonial and colonial settings; 13
  • Intricate space: The father-daughter relationship in Zimbabwean literature and culture; Bibliography; Back Cover.

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