Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa

Literature, Film, and National Discourse

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2021
The American University in Cairo Press (Verlag)
978-977-416-975-5 (ISBN)

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Constructions of masculinity are constantly evolving and being resisted in the Middle East and North Africa. There is no "before" that was a stable gendered environment. This edited collection 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. Bringing together contributors from the disciplines of linguistics, comparative literature, sociology, cultural studies, queer and gender studies, film studies, and history, Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa spans the colonial to the postcolonial eras with emphasis on the late twentieth century to the present day. This collective study is a diverse and exciting addition to the literature on gender and societal organization at a time when masculinities in the Middle East and North Africa are often essentialized and misunderstood.

Mohja Kahf is a Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of Hagar Poems (2016), The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006), E-mails from Scheherazad (2003), and Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque (1999). Nadine Sinno is an Associate Professor of Arabic in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech. She is the translator of Nazik Saba Yared’s novel Canceled Memories (2009) and co-translator of Rashid al-Daif’s novel Who’s Afraid of Meryl Streep? (2014) from Arabic to English.

Contributors
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Constructions of Masculinity in Southwest Asia and North Africa
Mohja Kahf

Exotic and Benighted, or Modern yet Victimized? The Modern Predicament of the Arab Queer
Jedidiah Anderson

Of Heroes and Men: the Crisis of Masculinity in the Post-Oslo Palestinian Narrative
Amal Amireh

The Precariousness of Hegemonic Masculinity in Rashid Al-Daif’s Who’s Afraid of Meryl Streep,
Nadine Sinno

Crises of Masculinity in Hudā Barakāt’s War Literature
Kifah Hanna

Mahfouz, al-Mutanabbi, and the Canon: Poetics of Deviance from the Masculine Nationalist Discourse of al-Sukkariyya
Robert James Farley

Diasporic Queer Arabs in Europe and North America: Sexual Citizenship and Narratives of Inclusion and Exclusion
Nicole Fares

Shaken Masculine Identity and the Persistence of Male-centered Narrative in Zakariyya Tāmir’s Latest Work
Alessandro Columbu

Romancing Middle Eastern Men in North and South America: Two Mid-Century Texts
John Tofik Karam

Tracing Masculinity in Iranian Cinema
Kaveh Bassiri

Men and Modernity in Postcolonial Tunisian Cinema
Nouri Gana

Constructions of Masculinity in Palestinian Film
Sarah Hudson

Gendered Politics in Late Nineteenth-century Egyptian Nationalist Discourse
Matthew B. Parnell

Men at Work: The Politics of Professional Pride in Ottoman Beirut
Kathryn Kalemkerian

“You Are Like A Virus:" Dangerous Bodies and Military Medical Authority in Turkey
Oyman Basran

Gendered Memories and Masculinities: Kurdish Peshmerga on the Anfal Campaign in Iraq
Andrea Fischer-Tahir

Militarist Masculinity, Militarist Femininity: A Gendered Analysis of Jordan’s War on the Islamic State
Ebtihal Mahadeen

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Verlagsort	Cairo
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	977-416-975-1 / 9774169751
ISBN-13	978-977-416-975-5 / 9789774169755
Zustand	Neuware