1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBE600200057855

Autore

Hübscher, Arthur

Titolo

Denker gegen den Strom : cShopenhauer : Gestern-Heute-Morgen / Arthur Hübscher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bonn, : Bouvier, 1988

ISBN

3416009509

Edizione

[4., durchgesehene Auflage]

Descrizione fisica

362 p. ; 20 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966448503321

Titolo

Manning the nation : father figures in Zimbabwean literature and society / / edited by Kizito Z. Muchemwa and Robert Muponde

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harare, Zimbabwe, : Weaver Press

Johannesburg, South Africa, : Jacana Media, c2007

ISBN

9786612869013

9781282869011

1282869019

9781779221315

1779221312

9781779221308

1779221304

9781779220943

1779220944

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MuchemwaK. Z (Kizito Z.)

MupondeRobert

Disciplina

809.8896891

Soggetti

Father figures - Zimbabwe

Father figures in literature

Zimbabwean literature - History and criticism

Patriarchy in literature

Literature and society - Zimbabwe



Masculinity in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-199).

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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