Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors viii
4. Introduction 1
5. I Man & Nation in Africa
6. 1 The Anxious Phallus The Iconography of Impotence in Quartier Mozart & Clando 9
7. 2 The Homoerotics of Nationalism White Male-on-Male Rape & the ‘Coloured’ Subject in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples 28
8. 3 ‘Wild Men’ & Emergent Masculinities in Post-Colonial Kenyan Popular Fiction 42
9. 4 The Anonymity of Manhood Unmasking Shadow Selves in Assia Djebar’s Ombre sultane 55
10. 5 The Rape Continuum Masculinities in the Works of Nawal El Saadawi & Tahar Ben Jelloun 68
11. II Alternative Masculinities
12. 6 ‘Coming Unstuck ’ Masculine Identities in Post-Independence Zimbabwean Fiction 81
13. 7 Imported Alternatives Changing Shona Masculinities in Flame & Yellow Card 100
14. 8 Ngũgi wa Thiong’o & the Crisis of Kenyan Masculinity 113
15. 9 Father Africa Counter-Narratives of Masculinity in Ousmane Sembene’s Faat Kiné & Moolaadé 127
16. 10 The Eternal Other The Authority of Deficit Masculinity in Asian-African Literature 139
17. 11 Recent Trends in the Treatment of Homosexualities in Literature & Film by African Artists 153
18. 12 Re-membering the Last King of Dahomey African Masculinities & Diasporic Desires 164
19. Index 178