04121nam 2200781Ia 450 991082042170332120200520144314.01-282-86901-997866128690131-77922-131-21-77922-130-41-77922-094-4(CKB)2560000000053057(EBL)1134963(OCoLC)830166513(SSID)ssj0000439340(PQKBManifestationID)11925753(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000439340(PQKBWorkID)10461082(PQKB)11194371(OCoLC)646849287(MdBmJHUP)muse21928(Au-PeEL)EBL1134963(CaPaEBR)ebr10344546(CaONFJC)MIL286901(PPN)187342563(FR-PaCSA)88825011(MiAaPQ)EBC1134963(EXLCZ)99256000000005305720080121d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrManning the nation father figures in Zimbabwean literature and society /edited by Kizito Z. Muchemwa and Robert Muponde1st ed.Harare, Zimbabwe Weaver Press ;Johannesburg, South Africa Jacana Mediac20071 online resource (226 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-77922-069-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-199).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 CoverGender 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, masculinityFather figures in Zimbabwean literature and societyFather figuresZimbabweFather figures in literatureZimbabwean literatureHistory and criticismPatriarchy in literatureLiterature and societyZimbabweMasculinity in literatureFather figuresFather figures in literature.Zimbabwean literatureHistory and criticism.Patriarchy in literature.Literature and societyMasculinity in literature.809.8896891Muchemwa K. Z(Kizito Z.)1669807Muponde Robert1669808MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820421703321Manning the nation4031237UNINA