Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (301 pages)
Ausgabe:
2nd ed
Ausgabe:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350221000
Serie:
African Culture Archive
Inhalt:
Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Stephen Clingman; Preface and Acknowledgements; -- 1. Introduction; Ideology; Literary Theory; 2. 'Mau Mau' as a Historical Phenomenon; Problems of Definition; 'Causes' of the Revolt; Origins and Organisation of the 'Mau Mau' and History of the Oath; Conduct of the Campaign: 'Mau Mau Atrocities' and State and Settler Repression; Social Composition of the 'Mau Mau' Movement; Towards a Categorical Definition of the Movement; Ideologies of the History of 'Mau Mau'; The Colonial Interpretation and 'Mau Mau' Oathing Ceremonies.
Inhalt:
Post-Independence Accounts: 'Mau Mau' Autobiographies and 'Progressive' and 'Reactionary' Nationalist Interpretations -- 3. Kenyan Colonial Settler Ideology; The Colonial Economy as a Determinant of Settler Ideology; Colonial Settler Ideology in its Aspect as Metropolitan Export; Colonial Settler Race Ideology: Myths and Stereotypes; Kenyan Colonial Settler Ideology as a Variant of Fascist Ideology; Terminology of Colonial Accounts of 'Mau Mau'; -- 4. Nothing of Value: Colonial Fiction about 'Mau Mau'; Fiction as Propaganda and the Settler Novelists.
Inhalt:
The Embodiment in Fiction of Colonial Myths About 'Mau Mau'Fictional Devices Used in Propounding Colonial Settler Ideology; The Fiction's Rendering Visible of the Ideological Structures of Colonial Fascism; 5. 'Plus fa Change ... ': Liberal Fiction from the Metropolis; The Effect of Settler Propaganda on the Metropolitan Image of 'Mau Mau'; The 'Liberal' Fiction; -- 6. Economy, Politics and Ideology in Post-Independence Kenya; From Colonial to Neo-Colonial Economy; Key Components of the Dominant Ideology: 'Unity', the Kenyatta Myth, and the Rejection of 'Mau Mau'; -- 7. Novels of the 'Freedom'
Inhalt:
Post-Independence Fiction as Praise-Song to the 'Leader'Further Resemblances to the Colonial Fiction: The Aesthetics of 'Balance' and the Politics of Contempt; -- 8. Not Yet the Freedom; The Changing Image of 'Mau Mau' in Ngugi's Novels; A Grain of Wheat as the Exemplary 'Crisis Text'; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Inhalt:
A thought-provoking exploration of the Mau Mau uprising and its place in the literature and identity of Kenya
Anmerkung:
Also published in print.
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Maughan Brown, David Land, Freedom and Fiction : History and Ideology in Kenya London : Zed Books, ©2017 ISBN 9780862324070
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350221000
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