Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa (African Expressive Cultures) - Softcover

Gondola, Ch Didier

 
9780253020772: Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa (African Expressive Cultures)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0253020778 ISBN 13: 9780253020772
Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS), 2016

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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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Indiana University Press (IPS)
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0253020778
ISBN 13 
9780253020772
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
270
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