1st Edition
History and Violence in Contemporary Kenyan Fiction Standpoints on Yvonne Owuor’s Writings
1. Introduction
Godwin Siundu
2. Swahili Seafarers’ Musings and Sensuous Seascapes in Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea
Jauquelyne Kosgei
3. Surviving the Genocide: The Singularity of Suffering in Yvonne Owuor’s "Weight of Whispers"
Edgar Fred Nabutanyi
4. Migrancy as Trauma: Yvonne Owuor’s "Weight of Whispers"
Miriam Maranga-Musonye
5. Rhizomic Writing and Reading of a Nation Coming to Birth in Yvonne A. Owuor’s Novel, Dust
Christopher Odhiambo Joseph
6. The Use of Ellipsis as a Narrative Technique in Yvonne Owuor’s Dust
Jennifer Muchiri
7. Why and to Where does Ajany Run? Culture and Femininity in Yvonne Owuor’s Dust
Esther K. Mbithi and Julia Njeri Karumba
8. Narrating Kenyan Silenced Histories through Fiction in Yvonne Owuor’s Dust
Amos Burkeywo
9. Let’s Talk About Craft! A Conversation with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Tina Steiner
Biography
Godwin Siundu is Senior Lecturer at the University of Nairobi’s Department of Literature, and Co-founding Editor of the journal of Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies. He researches mainly in literatures and cultures of South Asian diasporas, and has published articles in Research in African Literatures, PMLA, Journal of African Cultural Studies, and South Asian Diaspora, among other journals and edited books.
