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Gender and power as negotiated in Bukusu circumcision ceremonies

Wabende, Scholastica Nabututu ; Wanjala, Simon Nganga

Tydskrif vir letterkunde, 2023-01, Vol.60 (3), p.58-65 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Pretoria: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde

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Gender and power as negotiated in Bukusu circumcision ceremonies
Autor: Wabende, Scholastica Nabututu ; Wanjala, Simon Nganga
Assuntos: Analysis ; Bantu languages ; Bukusu ; Circumcision ; Conversation analysis ; Critical discourse analysis ; discourse ; Discourse analysis ; Females ; Gender studies ; Kenya ; Linguistics ; Literary Reviews ; Literary Theory & Criticism ; Literature ; Literature, African, Australian, Canadian ; Literature, German, Dutch, Scandinavian ; Negotiation ; Negotiations ; Postcolonialism ; Poststructuralism ; power ; Prosody ; Rites & ceremonies ; Rites, ceremonies and celebrations ; Sex role ; Sex roles ; Society ; Women
É parte de: Tydskrif vir letterkunde, 2023-01, Vol.60 (3), p.58-65
Descrição: Recent studies on language and gender that focus on songs and beer drinking sessions within the context of the Bukusu circumcision ceremony have shown that language is gendered and that it espouses male gender. Against this backdrop, in this study we aim to denaturalise this view by focussing on conversations within the circumcision ceremony. By using theoretical and methodological principles from critical discourse and conversation analysis in particular, we argue that, by using linguistic strategies, traditional gender roles are not only discursively highlighted but they are also negotiated and even resisted. This study falls within recent discussions in critical discourse analysis that have shown that language masks asymmetrical power relations on the one hand, and within postcolonial studies that have shown that gender discourses can reflect collisions between differing points of views on the other hand. The data used in this study is four audio recordings of conversations that took place alongside the main ceremony. This data has been analysed at the level of content and prosodic organisation to identify discursive practices that reveal the negotiation and contestation of gender roles. The study contributes to recent discussions in critical discourse analysis by exposing gender asymmetries and contestations that lie behind ‘taken-for-granted’ realities, with specific examples from the postcolonial context of the Bukusu circumcision ceremony.
Editor: Pretoria: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
Idioma: Inglês;Português;Africâner

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Gender and power as negotiated in Bukusu circumcision ceremonies

Wabende, Scholastica Nabututu ; Wanjala, Simon Nganga

Pretoria: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde

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