Die Geschlechterordnung ist nach wie vor von einer idealisierten Vorstellung von Männlichkeit bestimmt. Dennoch skandalisieren dieMedien regelmäßig einen »Verfall« von Männlichkeit. Elahe Haschemi Yekani unterzieht diese »angebliche Krise der Männlichkeit« einer kritischen Überprüfung. Sie entlarvt die Krisenrhetorik als Instrument, das privilegierte Positionen absichern soll. Die Studie bietet eingehende Analysen kolonialer und postkolonialer Krisennarrative in Literatur und Film.
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Contents
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction: Contained and Exposed Crises 9
Crisis as a Privilege 14
Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts 18
Masculinity as an Interdependent Category 25
'Hegemonic' and 'Marginalised' Masculinities 28
The Narratability of Masculinity and Narrative Patterns 33
1. Colonial Masculinities: Gentlemen and Hunters, Hybrid 'Sahibs' and Failures 41
Henry Rider Haggard: Nostalgic African Adventures 50
King Solomon's Mines: "We are men, thou and I" 53
She: "Heat, misery, and mosquitoes" 64
Colonial Photography: The Spectacle of the 'Self' 78
Heroic Hunters 87
Establishing Order 98
Rudyard Kipling: The Ambivalence of Empire 106
Kim: An Orientalist Coming of Age 108
Joseph Conrad: Masculine Modernism 121
The Nigger of the "Narcissus": Allegories of 'Black' Death and
'White' Camaraderie 123
Heart of Darkness: White Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 136
2. Postcolonial Masculinities: Hybrid Men, Fanatics and Anti-Heroes 154
Hanif Kureishi: New Ways of Being British 158
The Buddha of Suburbia: "A funny kind of Englishman" 160
The Black Album: Hybrid Crisis 174
Postcolonial Films: Queering the Imperial Gaze? 186
My Beautiful Laundrette: Coming-out 'In-Between' 186
The Crying Game: Male Femininity as a Spectacle 199
Zadie Smith: Hysterical Realism and Happy Multiculturalism? 216
White Teeth: Back to the Future 217
J. M. Coetzee: Postmodern Despair 233
Waiting for the Barbarians: Allegories of the Failure of 'Self' and 'Other' 235
Disgrace: Male Author-ity in an Age of Disgrace? 248
Conclusion: Towards a Particularisation of the Crisis of Masculinity - En/Countering Post-9/11 Crisis Narratives of Uncertainty 263
Abbreviations 274
List of Illustrations 275
Bibliography 277
Index 311
