«Wooden Man»?

Masculinities in the Work of J.M. Coetzee («Boyhood», «Youth» and «Summertime»)

AvDaniel Matias,Jose Armengol

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writer’s trilogy: Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009). Provocatively dealing with questions of autobiography, Coetzee’s trilogy provides a panoramic view of a man’s development through various stages of life and, equally, different geographical locations, such as apartheid South Africa, sixties London and South Africa in the throes of democratic revolution.Attentive to the masculine formations that the trilogy represents, this work draws on conceptual frameworks and methodologies provided by the joint critique of gender and postcolonial studies, and is particularly animated by the discussions raised by men’s studies, a field that is nowadays patently interested in postcolonial / transnational masculinities. In this vein, the work discusses not only aspects related to violence and gendered formations as they occur and manifest themselves in the intersections of the local and global, but also the possibilities of refashioning identities increasingly attentive to an ethics of Otherness, one of the staples of Coetzee’s writing.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-05-03
Mått:150 x 225 x 18 mm
Vikt:430 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Masculinity Studies
Antal sidor:214
Upplaga:17001
Förlag:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN:9781433138065

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Daniel Matias holds a PhD in cultural studies from the New University of Lisbon. With a background in psychology, his research interests are located in the intersection of gender and postcolonial studies, with a focus on the formation of subjectivities and democratic masculinities. He works as a psychotherapist in private practice.

Recensioner i media

“Daniel Matias provides a study that is highly innovative in many ways, the main one being that historical reality is understood as an integral part of scientific thinking, as it considers both the permanent and transformative aspects of time and space. The analysis of masculinities in Coetzee’s trilogy, as presented here, goes beyond the limitations of a simple case study pertaining to the post-colonial situation of South Africa; instead, it is an excellent acknowledgement of how a cultural outlook may provide an important recognition of the temporal dimensions and tensions of reality.” —Zília Osório de Castro, Full Professor (Jubilated) in History of Ideas; Director of the research unit Faces de Eva; Estudos sobre a Mulher and the Master’s Degree on Women’s Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements – Foreword – Introduction: Coetzee, Gender and Ethics – Part I Masculinities – Becoming a Man – Part II Making Men: Places of Masculinities – Fathers of the Nation – Family Outcast – Art of One – Part III Making the Other: Alternatives to Hegemony – Race and Masculinities – “Shades and Shadows of Life”: Women in Dark Times – Queer Other – Conclusions – Bibliography – Index.