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Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction

Receptivity and Gender

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender examines the depictions of men, women and masculinities in Nigerian novels by Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jude Dibia and Chinelo Okparanta. It shows how these writers contest cultural models of manhood and womanhood by portraying characters who articulate openness towards the marginalised and stigmatised in society, thus challenging hegemonic gender and sexual norms. Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike employs receptivity as a theoretical and relational lens to analyse how these writers depict characters who identify with the suffering of others and those living in precarious conditions. This book centres ethics as a crucial element in redefinitions of masculinity. It emphasises the need to appreciate the full humanity of another, especially those the dominant culture usually discriminates against and renders abject in society.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-30
Mått156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt517 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGender and the Body in Literature and Culture
Antal sidor240
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399538091

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DedicationAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Woman Wrapper, Domesticating Masculinity and Gender DiscourseChapter One: Precariousness in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall ApartChapter Two: Orthodoxy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple HibiscusChapter Three: Receptivity in Jude Dibia’s Walking with ShadowsChapter Four: Hospitality in Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala TreesConclusion: The Saliency of Ethical RelationalityWorks CitedIndex

Umezurike’s text remains foundational and will inspire insightful debates and meaningful conversations on masculinities and gender in Nigerian and African literature, as it brings literary insight to a discourse on masculinities that has hitherto been dominated by sociological, ethnographic, and medical perspectives. This book is a huge resource for students and scholars of Nigerian/African literature, African cultural studies, African gender and feminist scholars, postcolonial and masculinity scholars and everyone interested in understanding the multidimensionality of gender construction and expression in society.