Rethinking Mau Mau in colonial Kenya
By: S.M. Shamsul Alam
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781403983749
Subjects: Mau Mau -- History; Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-246) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: hegemony and counterhegemony in colonial context; title: Domination and its resistance : writings on Mau Mau; title: Rebel yell : the field marshal's story; title: Women and Mau Mau; title: Mau Mau and the critique of nationalism; title: Writing as subversion : Ngui wa Thiong'o's Mau Mau; title: Mau Mau in and as colonial discourse; title: The subaltern writes back; title: Conclusion : a presentist approach to Mau Mau