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Contested masculinities : crises in colonial male identity from Joseph Conrad to Satyajit Ray Nalin Jayasena

By: Publication details: London ; New York Routledge 2007Description: x, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415975483
ISSN:
  • 2006023272
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9353 JAY
Item type: Books
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Anna Centenary Library 820.9353 JAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 178394

Crises in colonial male identity -- Making English-men and unmaking empire in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim -- Performing masculinity, playing cricket: Bodyline and late-imperial British identity -- Of clubs and concubines: reading imperial authority in George Orwell's Burmese Days -- Desire is for men who are men: the politics of masculinity in Satyajit Ray's The Home and the World. This work examines how English masculinity was contested by feminism, nationalism in colonies, and homosexuality. Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-243) and index

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