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Gender and Decolonization in the Congo
The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba
von K. Bouwer
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Details
- ISBN
- 9780230110403
- Verlag
- Palgrave Macmillan US (New York)
- Erschienen
- 10.09.2010
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Seiten
- 247
- Einband
- EA
- Kategorie
- Nonbooks, PBS / Politikwissenschaft/Vergleichende und internationale Politikwissenschaft
Beschreibung
Patrice Lumumba s legacy continues to fire the imagination of politicians, activists, and artists. But women have been missing from accounts of the Congo s decolonization. What new ideals of masculinity and femininity were generated in this struggle? Were masculinist biases re-inscribed in later depictions of the martyred nationalist? Through analysis of Lumumba s writings and speeches, the life stories of women activists, and literary and cinematic works, Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba challenges male-centered interpretations of Congolese nationalism and illustrates how generic conventions both reinforced and undercut gender bias in representations of Lumumba and his female contemporaries.