V.S. Naipaul and His All-Male 4H Club

Tyrone Ali
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Slavery’s bloodstained gates simultaneously, and paradoxically, birthed a heritage of white hegemonic masculinity as well as the Afro-Caribbean man’s longing for retribution for Empire’s acute psychological emasculation. A subsequent emergent counter-hegemonic masculine figure claimed a heroism that was instrumental in creating an imperative of resistance. Many urban black men of the lower socioeconomic stratum utilized a hypermasculinity of sorts to assert this resistance. Humor became his coping technique as he grappled with the tensions, contentions, and collisions of colonial and postcolonial life. This article explores the interconnectedness of heritage, hegemony, hypermasculinity, and humor in shaping identities among representations of Empire-resistant Afro-Caribbean masculinities in V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street. The overarching aim is to underscore Naipaul’s implied androcentric philosophy regarding bodies, sexualities, and masculinities that plagued lower strata Afro-Caribbean men then and, quite possibly, today.
V.S.奈保尔和他的全男性4H俱乐部
奴隶制沾满鲜血的大门同时,矛盾的是,诞生了白人霸权男子气概的遗产,以及非裔加勒比人对帝国严重的心理阉割的报复的渴望。随后出现了一个反霸权的男性人物,他声称自己的英雄主义在创造反抗的必要性方面发挥了重要作用。许多社会经济地位较低的城市黑人男性利用各种各样的超级男子气概来坚持这种抵抗。幽默成为他应对殖民和后殖民生活的紧张、争论和冲突的技巧。本文探讨奈保尔的《米格尔街》中,遗产、霸权、超级男子气概和幽默在塑造抵抗帝国的非裔加勒比男性特征中的相互联系。最重要的目的是强调奈保尔关于身体、性和男子气概的隐含的男性中心主义哲学,这些哲学在当时和今天都困扰着底层的加勒比黑人男性。
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