LEADER 04055nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910458021703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-86901-9 010 $a9786612869013 010 $a1-77922-131-2 010 $a1-77922-130-4 010 $a1-77922-094-4 035 $a(CKB)2560000000053057 035 $a(EBL)1134963 035 $a(OCoLC)830166513 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000439340 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11925753 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000439340 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10461082 035 $a(PQKB)11194371 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1134963 035 $a(OCoLC)646849287 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21928 035 $a(PPN)187342563 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1134963 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10344546 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL286901 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000053057 100 $a20080121d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aManning the nation$b[electronic resource] $efather figures in Zimbabwean literature and society /$fedited by Kizito Z. Muchemwa and Robert Muponde 210 $aHarare, Zimbabwe $cWeaver Press ;$aJohannesburg, South Africa $cJacana Media$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (226 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-77922-069-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-199). 327 $aCover; 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? 327 $a8 - 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 330 $aGender 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 606 $aFather figures$zZimbabwe 606 $aFather figures in literature 606 $aZimbabwean literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPatriarchy in literature 606 $aLiterature and society$zZimbabwe 606 $aMasculinity in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFather figures 615 0$aFather figures in literature. 615 0$aZimbabwean literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPatriarchy in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and society 615 0$aMasculinity in literature. 676 $a809.8896891 701 $aMuchemwa$b K. Z$g(Kizito Z.)$01030907 701 $aMuponde$b Robert$01030908 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458021703321 996 $aManning the nation$92448057 997 $aUNINA