Rethinking eastern African literary and intellectual landscapes /
Ogude, James.
Musila, Grace A.
Ligaga, Dina.
Trenton : Africa World Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-411) and index.
The emergence of local patronages and intellectual traditions in post-independence East Africa: nativism or a critique of difference and universalism? / James Ogude -- Kwani? and the imaginations around re-invention of art and culture in Kenya / Tom Odhiambo -- The popular periodical and the politics of knowledge production: locating Jahazi / Garnette Oluoch-Olunya -- Intervention theatre traditions in East Africa and the paradox of patronage / Christopher Joseph Odhiambo -- Theorising craft: reading the creative through the critical in the works of Okot p'Bitek and Ngugi wa Thiong'o / Susan N. Kiguli -- Heirs of tradition or veiled anxieties? Romance, sex, and marriage in contemporary Ugandan women's short stories / Lynda Gichanda Spencer -- Reconstruction of the subject and society in Nuruddin Farah's Links and Knots / Fatima Fiona Moolla -- Post-colonial prison and colonial violence in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Detained / Isaac Ndlovu -- Influence of Mashairi tradition on contemporary East African poetry in English / Edwin Mosoti -- The place and thematic function of a panegyric in Swahili society: the case of Sufi al-Busiri's Kasida ya Hamziyyah / Tom Olali -- Shifting paradigms: the Indian Ocean world in Adbulra-zak Gurnah's Paradise and Desertion / Maria Olaussen -- Farms in Africa: wildlife tourism, conservation and whiteness in postcolonial Kenya / Grace A. Musila -- Gender affirmation or racial loyalties? Women and the domestication of history in Neera Kapur-Dromson's From Jhelum to Tana / Godwin Siundu -- The serious people of "Raha": the politics in the ethnic stereotyping of the Luo in Okatch Biggy's Benga / Tom M. Mboya -- From dansi to bongo flava. Popular music and politics in Tanzania, 1955-2005 / Maria Suriano -- The cost and reward of manhood: the practice of imbalu ritual among the Bagisu / Dominic Dipio -- (Re)producing nationalism in everyday life: a critical reading of official national narratives in Kenyan radio drama / Dina Ligaga -- Adjudicating the court system through drama: an examination of Vioja mahakamani's role on Kenyan television / Fred Mbogo -- Kenya's diasporic cyber 'publics' and the 'virtual' negotiation of identities: exploring the disjunctures and conjunctures / George Ogola.
East African literature (English)
East African literature