SOURCE: “Playin' ‘mas,’ Hustling Respect: Multicultural Masculinities in Two Stories by Austin Clarke,” in Masculine Migrations: Reading the Postcolonial Male in ‘New Canadian’ Narratives, University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. 29–51.
In the following essay, Coleman uses Judith Butler's theory of gender performance to understand the use of masculinity as an assertion of cultural resistance in Clarke's short stories, “A Man” and “How He Does It.”
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