Foreword / Grace A. Musila
Introduction: Conceptualizing representations of atrocity in art / Charles Kebaya
Narrating trauma in Yvonne Owuor's Dust / Edgar Nabutanyi
An eco-critical reading of Voice of the people and Different colours / Eva Nabulya
Locating bodies, embodying resistance: a Foucauldian reading of Wahome Mutahi's Jail bugs and Three days on the cross / Macharia Gatundu
Derision, delirium and denied justice in Benjamin Garth Bundeh's Birds of Kamiti / Larry Ndivo
Socio-economic atrocities in Meja Mwangi's Going down River Road and Kinyanjui Kombani's The last villains of Molo / Wesonga Robert
Symbolism of human relations in narratives of ethnic violence in Kenya / Waiganjo Ndirangu
Sycophants in a cannibal state: finding Kenya in Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the crow / Wafula Yenjela
Negotiating the vicious cycle of political atrocities in Ngugi Wa Thiongo's Wizard of the crow / Charles K. Rono
Gender-based atrocity in Kenyan urban women's novel after 2000 / Alina Rinkanya
Reading the politics of violence and impunity in Pango and Kufa Kuzikana / Simiyu Kisurulia
Political atrocity in Kenyan Swahili novel after 2000 / Mikhail Gromov
Textual subversion in the representation of Mau Mau atrocities in settler writing in Kenya / Colomba Muriungi
Grotesque images of colonial and Mau Mau violence in Ngugi Wa Thiongo's Weep not child and A grain of wheat / Benon Tugume
Emergency trauma in Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's A grain of wheat / Gichingiri Ndigirigi
Between fait accompli and eruptions of violence: Kenyan identity in Kwani's Twin edition 2008 / Miriam Pahl
Confronting national pain and suffering through Judy Kibinge's feature film, Something necessary / Jackie Ojiambo
Screening violence: the production and circulation of films about the Kenyan post-election violence of 2007/2008 / Robin Steedman
Bestial zoosemic labeling in Kenyan political songs: a conceptual metaphor perspective / George Ouma Ogal., & Titus Karuri Macharia
Reading Kalenjin popular music as a germ of ethnic violence / Kiprotich E. Sang
Repression in the poetry of Jared Angira / Bwocha Nyagemi
Poetry and atrocity: an analysis of three Kiswahili poets / Nahashon Nyangeri.