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Cultural Archives of Atrocity: Essays on the Protest Tradition in Kenyan Literature, Culture and Society book cover

1st Edition

Cultural Archives of Atrocity Essays on the Protest Tradition in Kenyan Literature, Culture and Society

Edited By Muriungi Columba, Charles Kebaya, Makokha Justus Kizito Siboe Copyright 2019
376 Pages
by Routledge

376 Pages
by Routledge

376 Pages
by Routledge
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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:... Read more
List of Contributors

Acknowledgements



Foreword



Introduction: Conceptualizing Representations of Atrocity in Art





PART ONE: Representations of Atrocity in the Contemporary Kenyan Novel







  1. Narrating Trauma in Yvonne Owuor’s Dust




  2. An Eco-critical Reading of Voice of the People and Different Colours




  3. Locating Bodies, Embodying Resistance: A Foucauldian Reading of Wahome Mutahi’s Jail Bugs and Three Days on the Cross




  4. Derision, Delirium and Denied Justice in Benjamin Garth Bundeh’s Birds of Kamiti




  5. Socio-Economic Atrocities in Meja Mwangi’s Going Down River Road and Kinyanjui Kombani’s The Last Villains of Molo




  6. Symbolism of Human Relations in Narratives of Ethnic Violence in Kenya




  7. Sycophants in a Cannibal State: Finding Kenya in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow




  8. Negotiating the Vicious Cycle of Political Atrocities in Ngugi wa Thiongo’s Wizard of the Crow




  9. Gender-Based Atrocity in Kenyan Urban Women's Novel after 2000




  10. Reading the Politics of Violence and Impunity in Pango and Kufa Kuzikana




  11. Political Atrocity in Kenyan Swahili Novel after 2000




    12. PART TWO: Narrating Mau Mau Violence and Trauma in the Kenyan Novel





  12. Textual Subversion in the Representation of Mau Mau Atrocities in Settler Writing in Kenya




  13. Grotesque Images of Colonial and Mau Mau Violence in Ngugi wa Thiongo’s Weep Not Child and A Grain of Wheat




  14. Emergency Trauma in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat




    15. PART THREE: Representations of Atrocity in Popular Arts





  15. Between fait accompli and eruptions of violence: Kenyan identity in Kwani’s twin edition 2008




  16. Confronting National Pain and Suffering through Judy Kibinge’s Feature Film, Something Necessary




  17. Screening Violence: the Production and Circulation of Films about the Kenyan Post-election Violence of 2007/2008




  18. Bestial Zoosemic labeling in Kenyan Political Songs: A Conceptual Metaphor Perspective




  19. Reading Kalenjin Popular Music as a Germ of Ethnic Violence




    20. PART FOUR: Representations of Atrocity in Kenyan Poetry





  20. Repression in the Poetry of Jared Angira




  21. Poetry and Atrocity: An Analysis of Three Kiswahili Poets




Index

Biography

Charles Kebaya holds a PhD in Television Drama Criticism from Kenyatta University and currently teaches Literature at Machakos University, Kenya.



Colomba Kaburi Muriungi is an associate professor of African Literature in the Department of Humanities and also the Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Chuka University, Kenya.



JKS Makokha is a Kenyan poet, critic, translator and academic. He is based in the Department of Literature, Kenyatta University.

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