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Postcolonial Masculinities
The Feminist Imagination –
Europe and Beyond
Series Editors: Kathy Davis, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and
Mary Evans, London School of Economics, UK
With a specific focus on the notion of ‘cultural translation’ and ‘travelling theory’,
this series operates on the assumption that ideas are shaped by the contexts in
which they emerge, as well as by the ways that they ‘travel’ across borders and
are received and re-articulated in new contexts. In demonstrating the complexity
of the differences (and similarities) in feminist thought throughout Europe and
between Europe and other parts of the world, the books in this series highlight the
ways in which intellectual and political traditions, often read as homogeneous, are
more often heterogeneous. It therefore provides a forum for the latest work that
engages with the European experience, illuminating the various exchanges (from
the USA as well as Europe) that have informed European feminism. The series
thus allows for an international discussion about the history and imaginary of
Europe from perspectives within and outside Europe, examining not only Europe’s
colonial legacy, but also the various forms of ‘cultural imperialism’ that have
shaped societies outside Europe. Considering aspects of Europe ‘abroad’ as well
as Europe ‘at home’, this series is committed to publishing work that reveals the
central and continued importance of the genealogy of feminist ideas to feminism
and all those interested in questions of gender.
Repudiating Feminism
Young Women in a Neoliberal World
Christina Scharf
Transatlantic Conversations
Feminism as Travelling Theory
Edited by Kathy Davis and Mary Evans
Framing Intersectionality
Debates on a Multi-Faceted Concept in Gender Studies
Edited by Helma Lutz, Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar and Linda Supik
Postcolonial Masculinities
Emotions, Histories and Ethics
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1988, to be identified as the author of this work.
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III
I dedicate this book to Ahmed Kabesh and Amir Hawash
with love and gratitude.
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
2 Landscapes of Masculinities 25
Afterword 159
Bibliography 163
Index 175
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Acknowledgements
I am fortunate to work at the School of Sociology and Social Policy that provides
a collegiate and supportive atmosphere and a sabbatical both of which have
enabled me to develop this monograph. I am grateful to Srila Roy for the initial
idea for this book and to Nick Stevenson for suggesting two of the novels that
I have used. I am very thankful to Alison Pilnick and the late and much missed
Bill Loach who read the manuscript and due to their generous encouragement
and engagement provided a much needed boost of confidence. I also thank Clare
Hemmings for reading the final chapter and for her exceptionally useful advice.
My thanks to Rebecca Swift and Alison Haigh who tolerate my inefficiencies and
numerous administrative queries with good humour and have stepped into help
on far too many occasions.
Paul Cowdell is a gift of a copy editor and I am grateful to him for his careful
reading of the manuscript. I thank Agnes Bezzina who pulled together the
references with careful attention. I also thank Neil Jordan at Ashgate for his help
and efficiency and especial thanks are due to Neil for suggesting such an evocative
image for the cover. Kathy Davis and Mary Evans are exemplary editors and I
cannot thank them enough for their careful editorial suggestions, enthusiasm and
gentle encouragement and faith in this project.
I owe a long-standing debt to the Editorial Collective of Feminist Review for
thoughtful dialogue and disagreements over many years and these debates have
influenced my thinking and analysis – I thank them all. For standing by me and
providing cups of tea, conversation, distraction, support, laughs and numerous acts
of friendship and kindness I thank: Alice Bloch, Annabell Bell-Boule, Christian
Karner, Clare Hemmings, Clemens Scheidegger, Graham Lee, Helen Crowley, Ian
Greenway, Jan Lees, Julia O’Connell Davidson, Lucy Sargisson, Mandy Roland-
Smith, Nick Stevenson, Pauline Henderson, Sally Alexander (to whom I owe a debt
which reaches back to my days as an undergraduate), Sally Weintrobe, Stephanie
Newell, Susannah Radstone, Thomas Herzog, Tracey Warren and Volker Scheid.
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Chapter 1
In the Shadow of the Other
A number of years ago I was on a long train journey, sharing a table with three men
who were immersed in conversation. I was absorbed in my novel, which I quickly
finished, so with nothing to do I started to eavesdrop on their conversation, that
mainly focused on sport. Initially I was bored, but something about the quality
of the conversation began to interest me and I listened more intently. I suddenly
recognised the variety and intensity of feelings being articulated by these men,
ranging from pleasure to hurt, anger to jealousy, betrayal to despair.
Postcolonial Masculinities: Emotions, Histories and Ethics started on that train
journey. It has had a long gestation since I first pondered the matter of masculinity
and emotion and my perceptions, feelings and thoughts changed thanks to my
shameless eavesdropping. It was through listening to these men (who I do not know
but I thank them nonetheless) that my previous thinking began to shift as I realised
the depth and sincerity of the emotions that they expressed. Before this incident
I had gone along unthinkingly with the commonplace assumptions that men are
rational, out-of-touch with their feelings and shy away from expressing affect. At the
beginning of my eavesdropping I was caught in the banal and dismissive views that
all men talk about is sport and while it is true that sport (specifically football) was
the focus of their discussion I began to recognise that it is through sport that so much
more is expressed. I then began to reflect on men that I know (family and friends)
and started to understand the various modes of expression that men use to express
themselves, engage with others and make themselves known and recognised.
This monograph is my engagement and attempt (at times struggle) to listen
differently and understand men anew in relation to emotions. If that was not
enough, my engagement has widened to thinking through Egyptian and British
masculinities and exploring what may be their distinctive and shared characteristics.
I am working across a web of interconnected themes – masculine subjectivity,
emotion and narrative, socio-political events – that at times coincide, and at
other times pull in different directions. Postcolonial Masculinities focuses on
exploring emotions and (I have to acknowledge) negative emotions. It elucidates
some beliefs and fantasies that men hold about each other and the complexity of
men’s relations to other men and to women, and it attempts to illuminate a few
internalised socio-cultural narratives and representations.
This book attempts to bring various shadows – emotions, fantasies, other
human beings, society, history – into relief. It is an attempt at understanding a few,
crucial, psychosocial themes relating to postcolonial masculinities. Interspersed
2 Postcolonial Masculinities
Despite the underlying unity and stability implied by the terms English, British
or Muslim, they were used to describe people with diverse interests, perspectives
and concerns, as well as multiple ways of identifying themselves. The instability
of the terms is used to define identity as well as the continually fluctuating nature
of the imperial cultural system which belies the concrete material realities
which often resulted from these ideas, as well as the obstacles and limitations
experienced by individuals operating in this system. (2006: 4)
While Robinson-Dunn locates this in the past I would argue that matters of
representation and identity, and their various obstacles, persist into the present.
There is a theoretical and political difficulty centring on how to elucidate these
competing discourses that operate so powerfully. Moreover, there is a further
layer of complexity which focuses attention on understanding the specificities of
cultures without over-emphasising differences or similarities.
These precarious understandings exist within unequal power and material
relationships. It is all too easy to represent Egypt as an inferior culture to the
supposed superiority of England and to behave as if these two societies existed
without reference to each other. I am insisting that there is a process of entanglement
between the West and the Rest, which belies the dichotomies that both assert.
Representations of the Orientalised other and the Occidentalised subject are
4 Postcolonial Masculinities
with enjoyment. This is not to wipe out the difficulties of the persistent problem
of how we relate to the ‘fact of the other’s independent consciousness, a mind
that is fundamentally like our own but unfathomably different and outside our
control’ (Benjamin 1998: xii). Our capacity for misrecognition can, and frequently
does, ‘further impede our recognition of others, to bridge or obfuscate differences
between us’ (Benjamin 1998: xiii). At this current political conjuncture there
seems to be little recognition, understanding or identification. There is much talk
of the enemy, of threats from within and outside (mainly Muslim young men), and
of the continual danger of terrorism. The discourse of a ‘clash of civilisation’ is
implicit and yet powerful. Apparently no talk can take place. Only aggression and
defence will do. I want to adhere to Erlich’s plea that ‘it is probably as creative an
act as we may ever be able to perform, to be able to regard an enemy as part of us
and yet as existing separately and in his or her own right’ (1997: 125). As Erlich
(1997) puts it, our feelings and fantasies of the person who is deemed as other
can be marked by feelings of hatred and rivalry that can exist alongside positive
feelings of love, admiration, and the wish to identify and emulate.
There are different talks and a colony of difference between talk that reaches
across and talk that distances. Similarly, different motivations are at work
between what seeks to understand and to be changed by an encounter and what
searches for opportunities to dominate and subjugate. Recognition, identification
and knowledge are demanding, since to engage in that endeavour requires that
we pay attention to our intransigent fantasies, stubborn feelings, heartfelt beliefs
and those thoughts that flit across the mind that are seemingly innocuous but
problematic in their capacity to alienate and entrench the self and others in well-
worn tropes and empty representations.
The demand for ethical relatedness, which is taken up more closely in Chapter
8, calls upon us to draw on a different notion of the person who is other and who
is so often represented and positioned as the scapegoat. We should acknowledge
some historical lessons, for the scapegoat has changed meaning over time.
Eagleton explores how the scapegoat historically was a sacred thing, as
The scapegoat is both holy and cursed, since the more polluted it becomes by
absorbing the city’s impurities, the more redemption it brings. The redemptive
victim is the one who takes a general hurt into its own body, and in doing so
transforms it into something rich and rare. (2005: 131)
From a different angle Marina Warner explores the peculiarly modern phenomenon
of treating the other as different and as a threat. She explores how the new and the
strange did not always shock, for ‘they can lure, they can delight. The Other in
history has exercised a huge power of attraction, not repulsion’, and recognising
that there are different and enjoyable ways of living with otherness ‘can then stretch
and deepen the language of pleasure’ (2002: 20). In short, and optimistically, the
discourses that surround us at present are neither the only ones available nor are
they inescapable. There are, however, different investments at work; as the social
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