Women’s Contributions to Declining Masculinities in the Urban Fiction of Meja Mwangi

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dc.contributor.authorLpariyan, Lengerded
dc.contributor.authorMwangi, Macharia
dc.contributor.authorChetambe, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-26T13:08:39Z
dc.date.available2023-10-26T13:08:39Z
dc.date.issued2023-09
dc.descriptionArticleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis work focuses on the role women play in the declining masculinities as it emerges in Meja Mwangi’s The Cockroach Dance (1979) and Rafiki Man Guitar (2013). The increased empowerment of women over the years has continued to affect shifting gender roles, a situation that has come to pose a big threat to hegemonic masculinities, especially in the postcolonial urban setting. In its quest to empower women and achieve gender equality, feminism has played the role of subverting expressions of masculinity in a number of ways. The conditions of the postcolonial city have adversely subjected men to a foray of social, economic, and political challenges, creating a reversal in which the traditional perceptions of manhood have been repudiated. In a number of situations, the female counterparts have come to occupy the dominant position. Using theories of gender in relation to the dynamics of the postcolonial urban culture, this study is an exploration of Meja Mwangi’s representation of the circumstances that have contributed to declining masculinities in his two novels above.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLpariyan, L., Mwangi, M. & Chetambe, M.(2023). Women’s Contributions to Declining Masculinities in the Urban Fiction of Meja MwangiEast African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 6(2), 139-147. https://doi.org/10.37284/eajass.6.2.1464en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.37284/eajass.6.2.1464
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/27081
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEANSOen_US
dc.subjectHegemonic Masculinitiesen_US
dc.subjectUrban Womenen_US
dc.subjectPostcolonialen_US
dc.subjectUrban Novelen_US
dc.subjectGender Rolesen_US
dc.titleWomen’s Contributions to Declining Masculinities in the Urban Fiction of Meja Mwangien_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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