HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY IN ARCHETYPAL AFRICAN NOVELS
Journal Title: INFORMASI - Year 2018, Vol 48, Issue 2
Abstract
The study attempts to examine the concept of hegemonic masculinity in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North (1966) and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958). To achieve that it deals with two concerns. First, it tackles the process of development of masculinity attempting to identify hegemonic masculinity among other stages within this process. Secondly, it investigates hegemonic masculinity as a concept occasionally occurs in popular African fiction with emphasis placed on its presence in Salih's Season of Migration to the North and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. The research concludes with a recommendation to focus more research efforts on literature that deals with hypermasculinity, the stage succeeding hegemonic masculinity, as it needs
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Amjad Alsyouf
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- DOI 10.21831/informasi.v48i2.21657
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