Al-Rujūlah: Male and Masculinities in Modern Sudanese Narrative Discourse

In: Hawwa: journal of women in the Middle East and the Islamic World, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 249-270

Abstract

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is, first of all, to explore that which is essentially male/masculine in Afro-Sudanese culture and once explored, to reach deeper into its discursive portrayal in modern Sudanese narrative discourse. The paper uses a number of representative short stories written since the early thirties in northern Sudan as sites of inquiry. Drawing from existing studies on the male in the East and the West, the paper examines the representation of male and masculinity in modern Sudanese narrative discourse using the following as strategies: gender conflicts and politics, intra-gender paradoxes, the male as satire and allegory, and the male as a myth.