Gender and naming practices, and the creation of a taxonomy of masculinities in the South African soap opera The Queen

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dc.contributor.authorNcube, Gibsonen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-08T07:03:20Z
dc.date.available2021-07-08T07:03:20Z
dc.date.issued2019-07-01
dc.descriptionCITATION: Ncube, G. 2019. Gender and naming practices, and the creation of a taxonomy of masculinities in the South African soap opera The Queen. Nomina Africana: The Journal of African Onomastics, 33(1):1–8, doi:10.2989/NA.2019.33.1.1.1331.
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at https://www.nisc.co.za
dc.description.abstractThe field of scholarly inquiry lying at the intersection of onomastics and gender studies is one that is under-researched. Seeking to contribute to emerging debates on how names and naming practices shape the construction and perception of gender identities, this article examines the naming practices in the soap opera The Queen, and how these help to understand different forms of masculinities. By bringing onomastic and gender perspectives into the conversation, this article contends that naming practices in The Queen are important signifying constructs that possess an elocutionary force of validating and invalidating different expressions of masculinity. The taxonomy of masculinities that The Queen proposes makes it possible to examine how certain masculinities are deemed more masculine than others. The names of the characters, together with their corporeal deployment, allow for a rethinking of what it means to be male or a man in post-apartheid South Africa.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublisher's version
dc.format.extent8 pages
dc.identifier.citationNcube, G. 2019. Gender and naming practices, and the creation of a taxonomy of masculinities in the South African soap opera The Queen. Nomina Africana: The Journal of African Onomastics, 33(1):1–8, doi:10.2989/NA.2019.33.1.1.1331.
dc.identifier.issn2706-9842 (online)
dc.identifier.issn1012-0254 (print)
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6351-6114
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.2989/NA.2019.33.1.1.1331
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/110677
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherNames Society of Southern Africa
dc.rights.holderAuthor retains copyright
dc.subjectNamingen_ZA
dc.subjectOnomasiology -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectMasculinityen_ZA
dc.subjectGender identity in mass mediaen_ZA
dc.subjectThe Queen (Soap opera) -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.titleGender and naming practices, and the creation of a taxonomy of masculinities in the South African soap opera The Queenen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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