Man among Other Men e-bog
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A Man among Other Men examines competing constructions of modern manhood in the West African metropolis of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. Engaging the histories, representational repertoires, and performative identities of men in Abidjan and across the Black Atlantic, Jordanna Matlon shows how French colonial legacies and media tropes of Blackness act as powerful axes, rooting masculine identity and v...
E-bog
1386,89 DKK
Forlag
Cornell University Press
Udgivet
15 maj 2022
Længde
306 sider
Genrer
Gender studies: men and boys
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781501762871
A Man among Other Men examines competing constructions of modern manhood in the West African metropolis of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. Engaging the histories, representational repertoires, and performative identities of men in Abidjan and across the Black Atlantic, Jordanna Matlon shows how French colonial legacies and media tropes of Blackness act as powerful axes, rooting masculine identity and value within labor, consumerism, and commodification.Through a broad chronological and transatlantic scope that culminates in a deep ethnography of the livelihoods and lifestyles of men in Abidjan's informal economy, Matlon demonstrates how men's subjectivities are formed in dialectical tension by and through hegemonic ideologies of race and patriarchy. A Man among Other Men provides a theoretically innovative, historically grounded, and empirically rich account of Black masculinity that illuminates the sustained power of imaginaries even as capitalism affords a deficit of material opportunities. Revealed is a story of Black abjection set against the anticipation of male privilege, a story of the long crisis of Black masculinity in racial capitalism.