Asante Lucy Mtenje
Biographic Data
| ID | 183446 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asante Lucy Mtenje |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asante Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Mtenje |
| SIGNATURE | MTENJE A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8728-0735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Carving Their Place in History”
Awa ndi macheza aamai (This is women's play)
Women's social groups and gatherings in Malawi, whether physical or virtual, are often dismissed as something not to be taken seriously, as they are imagined to be places where nothing useful but chitchat and gossip will emerge. Nevertheless, these spaces, as sites of leisure where women can engage in macheza (play), continue to play an important role in how urban women variously experience pleasure. Mtenje considers social media groups for women…
Something Radical”
This article examines how Tendai Huchu in The Hairdresser of Harare attempts to deconstruct national discourses of normativity from within. Focusing on the curious and powerful couple of Minister M_ and Mr. M_, I argue that the novel complicates narratives about nationalism and belonging by including narratives of gender and sexuality that have been excluded from the nationalist, heteronormative national script of Zimbabwean identity. Huchu uses …
Rethinking the nation
This article examines the interplay of race, desire, and love in Irene Sabatini’s novel The Boy Next Door by focusing on an interracial relationship that develops in a newly independent, yet still fraught, Zimbabwe. I argue that as a narrative strategy Sabatini uses two major historical periods in the history of independent Zimbabwe as the backdrop of a complicated and controversial relationship in order to offer critical commentary on the constr…
‘Celibacy is certainly not for me!’
Moses Isegawa's representation of young male sexuality in Abyssinian Chronicles draws our attention to sexuality as a mobile process of relation, a provisional, contextually-informed construct which challenges more naturalised assumptions of sexuality as a monolithic biological given. Even though there may be attempts by various state and ideological apparatuses to police sexualities and bodies, whether via explicit control or the more subtle inc…
Modest Desires and Defiant Gestures”
This article examines how Doreen Baingana in Tropical Fish: Tales out of Entebbe (2005) and Violet Barungi in Cassandra (1999) engage with aspects of female sexuality such as eroticism, desire, and sexual agency. I explore how these writers set these modes of being in intersectional relation with various patriarchal institutions. I focus on the different degrees of co-option and coercion, containment and escape associated with representations of …
Sex, Pleasures, Dangers, Love and Lies
This essay examines how contemporary Malawian female poets writing in the post-dictatorship era engage with aspects that inflect female sexuality such as eroticism, sexual desire, marriage, sexual violence, and HIV/AIDS through their poetry and how they represent these aspects against normative expectations of gender and sexuality. I am interested in how these poets depict the complex mediation of female sexualities by the state, the family, reli…
Awa ndi macheza aamai (This is women's play)
Women's social groups and gatherings in Malawi, whether physical or virtual, are often dismissed as something not to be taken seriously, as they are imagined to be places where nothing useful but chitchat and gossip will emerge. Nevertheless, these spaces, as sites of leisure where women can engage in macheza (play), continue to play an important role in how urban women variously experience pleasure. Mtenje considers social media groups for women…
Something Radical”
This article examines how Tendai Huchu in The Hairdresser of Harare attempts to deconstruct national discourses of normativity from within. Focusing on the curious and powerful couple of Minister M_ and Mr. M_, I argue that the novel complicates narratives about nationalism and belonging by including narratives of gender and sexuality that have been excluded from the nationalist, heteronormative national script of Zimbabwean identity. Huchu uses …
Sex, Pleasures, Dangers, Love and Lies
This essay examines how contemporary Malawian female poets writing in the post-dictatorship era engage with aspects that inflect female sexuality such as eroticism, sexual desire, marriage, sexual violence, and HIV/AIDS through their poetry and how they represent these aspects against normative expectations of gender and sexuality. I am interested in how these poets depict the complex mediation of female sexualities by the state, the family, reli…
‘Celibacy is certainly not for me!’
Moses Isegawa's representation of young male sexuality in Abyssinian Chronicles draws our attention to sexuality as a mobile process of relation, a provisional, contextually-informed construct which challenges more naturalised assumptions of sexuality as a monolithic biological given. Even though there may be attempts by various state and ideological apparatuses to police sexualities and bodies, whether via explicit control or the more subtle inc…
Modest Desires and Defiant Gestures”
This article examines how Doreen Baingana in Tropical Fish: Tales out of Entebbe (2005) and Violet Barungi in Cassandra (1999) engage with aspects of female sexuality such as eroticism, desire, and sexual agency. I explore how these writers set these modes of being in intersectional relation with various patriarchal institutions. I focus on the different degrees of co-option and coercion, containment and escape associated with representations of …
Sex, Pleasures, Dangers, Love and Lies
This essay examines how contemporary Malawian female poets writing in the post-dictatorship era engage with aspects that inflect female sexuality such as eroticism, sexual desire, marriage, sexual violence, and HIV/AIDS through their poetry and how they represent these aspects against normative expectations of gender and sexuality. I am interested in how these poets depict the complex mediation of female sexualities by the state, the family, reli…
Something Radical”
This article examines how Tendai Huchu in The Hairdresser of Harare attempts to deconstruct national discourses of normativity from within. Focusing on the curious and powerful couple of Minister M_ and Mr. M_, I argue that the novel complicates narratives about nationalism and belonging by including narratives of gender and sexuality that have been excluded from the nationalist, heteronormative national script of Zimbabwean identity. Huchu uses …
Rethinking the nation
This article examines the interplay of race, desire, and love in Irene Sabatini’s novel The Boy Next Door by focusing on an interracial relationship that develops in a newly independent, yet still fraught, Zimbabwe. I argue that as a narrative strategy Sabatini uses two major historical periods in the history of independent Zimbabwe as the backdrop of a complicated and controversial relationship in order to offer critical commentary on the constr…
Awa ndi macheza aamai (This is women's play)
Women's social groups and gatherings in Malawi, whether physical or virtual, are often dismissed as something not to be taken seriously, as they are imagined to be places where nothing useful but chitchat and gossip will emerge. Nevertheless, these spaces, as sites of leisure where women can engage in macheza (play), continue to play an important role in how urban women variously experience pleasure. Mtenje considers social media groups for women…
“Carving Their Place in History”
Gender Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (5 works) · Human sexuality (5 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)