“Wooden Man”?
«Wooden Man»? Masculinities in the Work of J.M. Coetzee («Boyhood», «Youth» and «Summertime»)
- Daniel Matias
- 2017
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang
- ISBN: 9781433138089
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-1-4331-3807-2
- Idioma: Inglês
- 214 pp.
This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writer’s trilogy: Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009). Provocatively dealing with questions of autobiography, Coetzee’s trilogy provides a panoramic view of a man’s development through various stages of life and, equally, different geographical locations, such as apartheid South Africa, sixties London and South Africa in the throes of democratic revolution.
Attentive to the masculine formations that the trilogy represents, this work draws on conceptual frameworks and methodologies provided by the joint critique of gender and postcolonial studies, and is particularly animated by the discussions raised by men’s studies, a field that is nowadays patently interested in postcolonial / transnational masculinities. In this vein, the work discusses not only aspects related to violence and gendered formations as they occur and manifest themselves in the intersections of the local and global, but also the possibilities of refashioning identities increasingly attentive to an ethics of Otherness, one of the staples of Coetzee’s writing.
Daniel Matias holds a PhD in cultural studies from the New University of Lisbon. With a background in psychology, his research interests are located in the intersection of gender and postcolonial studies, with a focus on the formation of subjectivities and democratic masculinities. He works as a psychotherapist in private practice.
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Notícias
Marta Pinto Machado em dose dupla em Lisboa: MNAC e CCCV
A exposição “Ceci n’est Pas Francisco” está patente no MNAC e vai-se estender ao CCCV
Ainda há VINCULUM na Madeira
O “Tombo I da Igreja de Machico” vai ser o mote para uma série de eventos culturais
Nuno Silas expõe no MUHNAC
É um dos curadores da exposição “Olhares Críticos no Arquivo Colonial – Sombras e Memórias”
