In the wake of feminist reshaping and postcolonial interrogation of the adventure genre, this article investigates men/boys in the Indian adventure narratives for children to decode what society wishes to be, what it wishes to be seen as, and what it unconsciously reveals itself to be in the areas of masculinity and manliness. Content analysis of the Indian children’s adventure stories in English (ICLE) and Gujarati languages (CLG) is undertaken by grounding the framework of hegemonic masculinity in the Indian context. The conclusions reveal myriad strategies employed by hegemonically gendered texts to adhere to the wide spectrum of hegemonic masculinity and by non-hegemonically gendered ones to interrogate, invert, ridicule, and replace these ideals. These conclusions underline the importance of examining masculinity as a location of gender politics.

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Category	Quartile
SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY	3