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9781775820819, titled "Outposts of Progress: Joseph Conrad, Modernism and Post-Colonialism" | Univ of Cape Town Pr, July 1, 2015, cover price $27.95
9780534559205, titled "Becoming a Teacher in a Field-Based Setting: An Introduction to Education and Classrooms" | Wadsworth Pub Co, July 1, 2001, cover price $56.95 | also contains Becoming a Teacher in a Field-Based Setting: An Introduction to Education and Classrooms
Product Description: Through their analysis of the depictions in film and literature of masculinities in colonial, independent and post-independent Africa, the contributors open some key African texts to a more obviously politicized set of meanings. Collectively, the essays provide space for rethinking current theory on gender and masculinity: - how only some of the most popular theories in masculinity studies in the West hold true in African contexts; - how Western masculinities react with indigenous masculinities on the continent; - how masculinity and femininity in Africa seem to reside more on a continuum of cultural practices than on absolutely opposite planes; - and how generation often functions as a more potent metaphor than gender...read more
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9781847015211, titled "Men in African Film & Fiction" | James Currey Ltd, February 17, 2011, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Through their analysis of the depictions in film and literature of masculinities in colonial, independent and post-independent Africa, the contributors open some key African texts to a more obviously politicized set of meanings.
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