Challenging gender hierarchies in narratives of the nation: representations of women in Zintgraff and the Battle of Mankon and Hard Choice

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dc.contributor.authorNkealah, N.
dc.contributor.authorOluwasuji, O.G.
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-01T13:12:02Z
dc.date.available2022-04-01T13:12:02Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractAbstract Ideas of nationalisms as masculine projects dominate literary texts by African male writers. The texts mirror the ways in which gender differentiation sanctions nationalist discourses and in turn how nationalist discourses reinforce gender hierarchies. This article draws on theoretical insights from the work of Anne McClintock and Elleke Boehmer to analyse two plays: Zintgraff and the Battle of Mankon by Bole Butake and Gilbert Doho and Hard Choice by Sunnie Ododo. The article argues that women are represented in these two plays as having an ambiguous relationship to nationalism. On the one hand, women are seen actively changing the face of politics in their societies, but on the other hand, the means by which they do so reduces them to stereotypes of their gender. Keywords: ambiguity; gender hierarchy; nationalism; feminism; masculinity; narratives of the nationen_ZA
dc.description.librarianMS2022en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationNkealah, N. & Oluwasuji, O.G. (2020). Challenging gender hierarchies in narratives of the nation Representations of women in Zintgraff and the Battle of Mankoen_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2663-6565 (
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/32848
dc.journal.issue2en_ZA
dc.journal.linkhttps://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6565/7815en_ZA
dc.journal.titleInternational Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies.en_ZA
dc.journal.volume11(2), 1 - 20.en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.rights© Unisa Press 2020en_ZA
dc.schoolWits School of Educationen_ZA
dc.titleChallenging gender hierarchies in narratives of the nation: representations of women in Zintgraff and the Battle of Mankon and Hard Choiceen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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