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Cultural archives of atrocity : essays on the protest tradition in Kenyan literature, culture and society
Title
Cultural archives of atrocity : essays on the protest tradition in Kenyan literature, culture and society / edited by Charles Kebaya, Colomba Kaburi Muriungi and J.K.S Makokha.
ISBN
9780367205454
0367205459
9780429262166
0429262167
9780429557231
9780429552762
9780429561702
Publication
New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
xxiii, 351 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"Studies on the aesthetic representations of atrocity the world over have taken different discursive dimensions from history, sociology, political to human rights. These perspectives are usually geared towards understanding the manifestations, extent, political and economic implications of atrocities. In all these cases, representation has been the singular concern. Cultural Archives of Atrocity: Essays on the Protest Tradition in Kenyan Literature, Culture and Society brings together generic ways of interrogating artistic representations of atrocity in Kenya. Couched on interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches, essays in this volume investigate representations of Atrocity in Kenyan Literature, Film, Popular Music and other mediated cultural art forms. Contributors to this volume not only bring on board multiple and competing perspectives on studying atrocity and how they are archived but provide refreshing and valuable insights in examining the artistic and cultural interpellations of atrocity within the socio-political imaginaries of the Kenyan nation. This volume forms part of the growing critical resources for scholars undertaking studies on atrocity within the fields of ethnic studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, peace and conflict, criminology, psychology, political economy and history in Kenya"--Provided by publisher.
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Essays on the protest tradition in Kenyan literature, culture and society
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 29, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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