South African queer sons challenging the white father’s legacy: forging new Afrikaner male identities in Etienne Kallos’s Die Stropers (The Harvesters)

IF 2.1 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

NORMA Pub Date : 2022-05-17 DOI:10.1080/18902138.2022.2076528

Grant Andrews

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The figure of the patriarchal white Afrikaner male was central to conceptualising and maintaining the system of apartheid in South Africa, and lingers in the imaginary of white identities in the country. Idealised white masculinity, embodied by the patriarch, is marked by strict gender roles and the rejection of same-sex sexualities, as these sexualities are seen as threatening to institutions like the heteronormative family and conservative Christianity. The 2018 South African film Die Stropers (The Harvesters) by Etienne Kallos represents queer sons in the rural farm setting. The film offers possibilities for disentangling white masculinities from heterosexist ideologies. Mirrors, mirroring and recognition/misrecognition are analysed as devices that represent the reproduction of ideology in the film, but queer sons are able to challenge these forms of mirroring and ultimately disrupt hegemonic masculinities that would stifle their identities, desires and forms of gender expression.

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南非酷儿儿子挑战白人父亲的遗产:在艾蒂安·卡洛斯的《收割者》中塑造新的阿非利卡男性身份

摘要父权制白人白人白人男性形象是南非种族隔离制度概念化和维持的核心，并徘徊在该国白人身份的想象中。父权制所体现的理想化白人男子气概以严格的性别角色和拒绝同性性行为为标志，因为这些性行为被视为对异规范家庭和保守基督教等机构的威胁。艾蒂安·卡洛斯（Etienne Kallos）2018年的南非电影《收割者》（Die Stropers）代表了农村农场环境中的酷儿。这部电影提供了将白人男性气质与异性恋意识形态区分开来的可能性。镜像、镜像和识别/误认被分析为代表电影中意识形态再现的手段，但酷儿能够挑战这些镜像形式，并最终破坏霸权男性气质，这将扼杀他们的身份、欲望和性别表达形式。

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NORMA Social Sciences-Gender Studies

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

14.30%

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