Metalinguistic discourses of ‘styling the other’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12898017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Busi Makoni (0000-0002-7411-8795, Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 349-370 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender and Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-6321 • E-ISSN: 1747-633X |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/genl.22690 |
| OpenAlex | W4390825187 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 48 |
This article explores how mobility shapes language, gender and sexuality during periods of indeterminacy, focusing on the discursive construction of masculinities. Using styling/‘styling the other’ as an interpretive framework, the article analyses how economic precarity leads to ambivalence in the masculinities of Zimbabwean heterosexual-identifying male migrants (ages 26–30 years) in Johannesburg. Interview data suggests that these men engaged in male-to-male sex work to achieve economic security. To solicit wealthy white men, the men performed stereotypical Black hypermasculinity and sophisticated, cosmopolitan gay subjectivities through language crossing and physical styling. These performances ultimately aimed to achieve the normative masculine identity of being a husband and provider. The article elucidates the paradox in which the men appropriated Polari, a British gay patois, and foreign or white understandings of Black/African masculinity to style the ‘other’ while fulfilling traditional Zimbabwean notions of masculinity
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Human sexuality · Identity (music · Masculinity · Normative · Political science · Sociology · White (mutation · Gender Studies · Gender Studies in Language · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Embodied sociolinguistics
Discordance between Sexual Behavior and Self-Reported Sexual Identity
Male sex workers
“In Zimbabwe there is nothing for us”
Gay men and other men who have sex with men in West Africa
Remaking the masculine self and coping in the liminal world of the gay ‘scene’
Cisgender male and transgender female sex workers in South Africa
Invisible existence’
Labelling black male genitalia and the ‘new racism’
Strategic language crossing as self-styling
Comprehensive Literature Review Pertaining to Married Men Who Have Sex With Men (MMSM)
Denied love
Gender and mobility
Without Borders? Notes on Globalization as a Mobility Regime
Constructing the Dark Continent
Tourist Attractions
Metalinguistic discourses on translanguaging and multimodality
The factors influencing transactional sex among young men and women in 12 sub-Saharan African countries
Female Sex Tourism
Migrancy and male sexuality on the South African gold mines
Sex trade among men
Gender, Mobility Regimes, and Social Transformation in Asia
Styling the Other
"Worse than dogs and pigs?" Attitudes Toward Homosexual Practice in Zimbabwe
The Southern African Pleasure Periphery, 1966-83
Unsettling race and language
Dialect stylization in radio talk
Gay and Lesbian Language
Whatever (Neck Roll, Eye Roll, Teeth Suck)
Sex Work/Sex Act
Transitional and perpetual liminality
Mombasa Morans
Renegotiating Masculinity in the South African Lowveld
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |