The privilege of crisis narratives of masculinities in colonial and postcolonial literature, photography and film
Zugl.: Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Diss., 2009
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| Sprache: | eng |
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2011
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Zugl.: Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Diss., 2009 Intoduction: Contained and exposed crises -- Crisis as a privilege -- Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts -- Masculinity as in interdependent category -- "Hegemonic" and "marginalised" masculinities -- The narratability of masculanity and narrative patterns 1. Colonial Masculanities: Gentlemen and Hunters, Hybrid "Sahibs" and failures -- Henry Rider Haggard: Nostalgic African adventures - 'King Solomon's mines': "We are men, thou and I" - 'She': "Heat, misery, and mosquitoes" -- Colonial Photography: The spectacle of the "self" - Heroic hunters - Establishing order -- Rudyard Kipling: The ambivalence of empire - 'Kim': An orientalist coming of age -- Joseph Conrad: Masculine modernism - 'The nigger of the "Narcissus"': Allegories of "black" death and "white" camaraderie - 'Heart of darkness': White men on the verge of a nervous breakdown 2. Postcolonial Masculinities: Hybrid men, fanatics and anti-heroes -- Hanif Kureishi: New ways of being British - 'The Buddha of Suburbia': "A funny kind of englishman" - 'The black album': Hybrid crisis -- Postcolonial films: Queering the imperial gaze? - 'My beautiful laundrette': Coming out "in-between" - 'The crying game': Male femininity as a spectacle -- Zadie Smith: Hysterical realism and happy multiculturalism? - 'White teeth': Back to the future -- J. M. Coetzee: Postmodern despair - 'Waiting for the barbarians': Allegories of the failure of "self" and "other" - 'Disgrace': Male author-ity in an age of disgrace? Conclusion: Towards a particularisation of the crisis of masculanity - En/Countering post-9/11 crisis narratives of uncertainty |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 277 - 310 |
| Beschreibung: | 320 S. Ill. 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9783593393995 978-3-593-39399-5 |