From “boys” to “men”? African and black masculinities, triangular desire, race, and subalternity in Charles Mungoshi’s short stories
This article looks at African and black men and masculinities, triangulated desire, race, and subalternity in Charles Mungoshi’s short story collections. It examines the negotiation of desire, and its interface and interplay with power relations and their negotiation in the colonial and postcolonial...
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| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
2016
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2013.798504 |
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| Summary: | This article looks at African and black men and masculinities, triangulated desire, race, and subalternity in Charles Mungoshi’s short story collections. It examines the negotiation of desire, and its interface and interplay with power relations and their negotiation in the colonial and postcolonial economies of
domination and gender as depicted in the short stories. It uses the Gramscian concept of hegemony, Girard’s mimetic theory of triangular desire, and Sedgwick’s theory of gendered triangular desire, to examine these dynamics. It argues that colonial and postcolonial power and gender relations are negotiated
through a complex interplay of desire that cannot all be accounted for by both Girard and Sedgwick’s models, necessitating their modification to deal with the complexity of desire in a colonial and postcolonial context. The short story collections examined span the colonial and postcolonial eras and these are Coming
of the Dry Season (1981), Some Kinds of Wounds (1980), and Walking Still (1997). |
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