[Discussion] CFP: Masculinities in Middle Eastern and North African Literature and Film (4/1/05; collection)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

In light of the recent dramatic growth of masculinity studies across all
disciplines, I am soliciting articles for a book collection devoted to
masculinities in Middle Eastern and North African Literature and Film.

Possible topics include: cultural representations of manhood and the
male body; sexual practices and sexual identities; virility or
infertility; race, ethnicity, class--and masculinities; fatherhood and
male identity; male-female relationships; relationships between
patriarchy and dominant masculinities; relationships between concepts of
masculinity and nationalism; colonialism, westernization, and local
responses to "modernity"; fatherhood and its essence in the cinematic
city; women and the masculine gaze of the city; the city as an "ordering
gaze"; cityscape and the distribution of sexuality, sex and the
cinematic city; and the calibration of the cinematic gaze of the
postcolonial city.

If you are interested, please email me <louzgane@ualberta.ca> an
abstract (about 200 words) and a CV by April 1, 2005. Queries welcome.

Essays should be between 6000 and 8000 words and are due August 1,
2005. E-mail submissions are welcome.

Prof. Lahoucine Ouzgane's publications include:
- Islamic Masculinities. London: Zed Books, November 2005.
- African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century
to the Present. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, March 2005.
http://www.palgrave-usa.com/Catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403965870
- Crossing Borderlands: Composition and Postcolonial Studies. U of
Pittsburgh P, 2004.
http://www.pitt.edu/~press/books/crossingborderlands.html



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