Critical readings on Eastern African autobiography
By: edited by Jairus Omuteche and Tunai Kesero
Publisher: Galda Verlag
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Glienicke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9783941267473
Subjects: East African literature; History and criticism; Autobiography; Autobiographies as Topic; Littérature est-africaine; Histoire et critique; Autobiographie; Autobiography (genre)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The art of the autobiography and the construction of the self as a social being in Eastern Africa  -- Jairus Omuteche and Tunai Kesero, Masinde Muliro University of Science and technology; title: East African immigrant autobiography : diasporic subjectivity and fragmented bodies  -- Delphine Fongang, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA; title: Imperialism and globalization in framing diasporisity, cosmopolitanism and journeys of self-becoming in Yusuf K. Dawood's autobiography Nothing but the truth : the story of a surgeon and four wives  -- Jairus Omuteche, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya; title: The promise in Mwalimu Julius Nyerere's speeches : the struggle for independence, the political journey and beyond the presidency  -- Obala F. Musumba and Clavery Kayugumi, Archbishop Mihayo University College of Tabora (a constituent college of St. Augustine University of Tanzania); title: Edwin Mtei's From a goatherd to governor and the politics of representation  -- Eliah S. Mwaifuge, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; title: Kenya's historical retrospect through introspection : a critical analysis of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Dreams in a time of war and In the house of the interpreter  -- Ong'ang'a Alfred Mugambi, Archbishop Mihayo University College of Tabora (a constituent college of St. Augustine University of Tanzania); title: Whose book is this? : authorial collaboration in Njenga Karume's Beyond expectations : from charcoal to gold  -- Kesero Tunai, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya; title: Structural cohesion in Bethwel Allan Ogot's autobiography My footprints on the sands of time  -- Rugh Flora Atsango, The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kisumu Campus, Kenya; title: Crime and imprisonment as sites of struggle and empowerment in the postcolonial Kenyan popular autobiographies of John Kiriamiti  -- Isaac Ndlovu, English Department, University of Venda, South Africa; title: Uncovering the (un)truths : transcending gender politics in the understanding of the Kenyan female criminal's prison narrative -- Marciana Nafula Were, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.