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Constructions of masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa : literature, film, and national discourse
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Constructions of masculinity are constantly evolving and being resisted in the Middle East and North Africa. This book examines constructions of both hegemonic and marginalized masculinities in the...
Constructions of masculinity are constantly evolving and being resisted in the Middle East and North Africa. This book examines constructions of both hegemonic and marginalized masculinities in the MENA region, through literary criticism, film studies, discourse analysis, anthropological accounts, and studies of military culture. This book spans the colonial and postcolonial eras with emphasis on the late twentieth century to the present day.
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- Creator
- edited by Mohja Kahf and Nadine Sinno
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2021
- ©2021
- Physical Details
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- xv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1649030169, 9789774169755, 9781649030153, 9781649030160, 1649030150, 9774169751
- OCLC
- on1205588748
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction: colonial to postcolonial masculinities in the Middle East and North Africa -- Exotic and benighted, or modern yet victimized? The modern predicament of the Arab queer -- Of heros and men: the crisis of masculinity in the post-Oslo Palestinian narrative -- "I get to deflower at least one. It's my right!": the precariousness of hegemonic masculinity in Rashid Al-Daif's Who's Afraid of Meryl Streep? -- Crises of masculinity in Huba Barakat's war literature -- Mahfouz, al-Mutanabbi, and the canon: poetics of deviance from the masculine nationalist discourse of al-Sukkariya -- Diasporic queer Arabs in Europe and North America: sexual citizenship and narratives of inclusion and exclusion -- Of knives, mustaches, and headgears: the fall of the Qabaday in Zakariya Tamir's latest works -- Romancing Middle Eastern men in North and South America: two mid-century texts -- Tough guys, martyrs, dandies, and marginalized men: changing masculine roles in Iranian cinema -- Men and modernity in postcolonial Tunisian cinema -- Construction of masculinity in Palestinian film -- Gendered politics in late nineteenth-century Egyptian nationalist discourse -- Men at work: the politics of professional pride in Ottoman Beirut -- "You are like a virus": dangerous bodies and military medical authority in Turkey -- Gendered memories and masculinities: Kurdish Peshmerga on the Anfa campaign in Iraq -- Militarist masculinity, militarist feminity: a gendered analysis Jordan's war on the Islamic State