Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa - Rilegato

Gondola, Ch. Didier

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ISBN 10: 0253020662 ISBN 13: 9780253020666

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2016

Riassunto

During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the "Bills" sought to negotiate lives lived under oppressive economic, social, and political conditions. They developed their own style, subculture, and slang and as Ch. Didier Gondola shows, engaged in a quest for manhood through bodybuilding, marijuana, violent sexual behavior, and other transgressive acts. Gondola argues that this street culture became a backdrop for Congo-Zaire’s emergence as an independent nation and continues to exert powerful influence on the country’s urban youth culture today.

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"Aligns social banditry with popular cultural formations and subcultures. This has been a longstanding feature of Didier Gondola's scholarship that is of great interest." --Peter J. Bloom, University of California, Santa Barbara"

"An innovative and original study that sheds light on masculinity, youth culture, performative violence, and the circuit of global imagery in the townships of Kinshasa." --Stephan F. Miescher, author of Making Men in Ghana and Modernization as Spectacle in Africa"

L'autore

Ch. Didier Gondola is Chair of the History Department and Professor of African History at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. He is editor (with Peter J. Bloom and Charles Tshimanga) of Frenchness and the African Diaspora: Identity and Uprising in Contemporary France (IUP).

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• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0253020662
• ISBN 13: 9780253020666
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 254