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Manning the nation : father figures in Zimbabwean literature and society /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Muchemwa, K. Z. (Kizito Z.), Muponde, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Harare, Zimbabwe : Johannesburg, South Africa : Weaver Press ; Jacana Media, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • "Why don't you tell the children a story?" : father figures in three Zimbabwean short stories / Kizito Z. Muchemwa
  • Killing fathers / Robert Muponde
  • Of fathers and ancestors in Charles Mungoshi's Waiting for the rain / Neil Ten Kortenaar
  • "Sins of the fathers" : revealing family secrets in Mungoshi's later fiction / Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo
  • The strong healthy man : AIDS and self-delusion / Lizzy Attree
  • Fatherhood and nationhood : Joshua Nkomo and the re-imagination of the Zimbabwe nation / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
  • Mai Mujuru : father of the nation? / Lene Bull Christiansen
  • Masculinities, race, and violence in the making of Zimbabwe / Jane L. Parpart
  • It couldn't be anything innocent : negotiating gender in patriarchal-racial spaces / Ane M. Ørbø Kirkegaard
  • "Boys" : performing manhood in Zimbabwean drama / Praise Zenenga
  • "A man can try" : negotiating manhoods in colonial urban spaces in Dambudzo Marechera's The house of hunger and Yvonne Vera's Butterfly burning / Grace A. Musila
  • The nature of fatherhood and manhood in Zimbabwean texts of pre-colonial and colonial settings / Mickias Musiyiwa and Memory Chirere
  • Intricate space : the father-daughter relationship in Zimbabwean literature and culture / Anna Chitando and Angeline M. Madongonda.