Men and the Politics of Hegemony in Ghanaian Film and Fiction
Theresah Patrine Ennin
Tuesday, 27 Nov 2018 at 7:00 pm – South Ballroom, Memorial Union
Many times we focus on the victims of men’s destructive behaviour. How many times have we stopped to think that such behaviour can be detrimental to the one engaging in It.? In what ways do these behaviours cause harm to the men themselves? The presentation uses films and books to detail the measures these men undertake in their desire to reach the hegemonic ideal and the costs and consequences to themselves and their families. Theresah Patrine Ennin is the 2018 American Council of Learned Societies-African Studies Association Presidential Fellow. She is senior lecturer of African literature in the Department of English at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. Ennin obtained her PhD in African Languages and Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was also a Fulbright JSDP Scholar at Wisconsin.Cosponsored By:
- African Studies Association/American Council of Learned Societies
- African and African American Studies Program
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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