1st Edition
Decolonising Childhoods in Eastern Africa Literary and Cultural Representations
By Oduor Obura
Copyright 2022
198 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
198 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
198 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book deconstructs Eurocentric narratives and showcases local voices to re-examine childhood in Eastern Africa.
Moving away from portrayals of eastern African childhood as characterised by want, the author argues for a differentiated and pluralist nature of the eastern African childhood. Taking a chronological approach, the author provides a multidisciplinary critical reading of Africanist... Read more
1. Introduction: Multiple Childhoods Part I 2. Bula Matadi and Incompleteness: Conceptual Decolonisation of Childhood 3. Africanist Childhood in Critical Frontiers 4. Archaeology of Childhood: Pre-imperial and Colonial Periods 5. Continuities and Contestations of Monodirectional Epistemology Part II 6. The Land of Childhoods: Yvonne Owuor’s Dust 7. The Childhoods of Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea 8. Jennifer Makumbi’s Kintu: Endangered and Engendered Childhoods 9. Conclusion: Childhoods Then, Now, Here and Next 10. Appendix
Biography
Oduor Obura holds a PhD from the University of Potsdam, Germany.
