| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 199 pages) |
| Contents |
"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 |
| Summary |
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 wealth, patriotism and terrorism, etc. The editors of Manning the Nation recognise that concepts of manhood can be used to repress or liberate, and will depend on historical and political imperatives; they seek to introduce a more nuanced perspective to the interconnectivity of patriarchy, masculinity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-199) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Father figures -- Zimbabwe
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Father figures in literature.
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Zimbabwean literature -- History and criticism
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Patriarchy in literature.
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Literature and society -- Zimbabwe
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Masculinity in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Father figures
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Father figures in literature
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Literature and society
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Masculinity in literature
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Patriarchy in literature
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Zimbabwean literature
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Mann Motiv
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Vater Motiv
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Gesellschaft
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Literatur
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Mann
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Zimbabwe
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Simbabwe
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Muchemwa, K. Z. (Kizito Z.)
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Muponde, Robert.
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| ISBN |
9781779221315 |
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1779221312 |
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