Urban legends, colonial myths
Subtitle: popular culture and literature in East Africa
By: edited by James Ogude & Joyce Nyairo.
Contributors: Ogude, James.; Nyairo, Joyce.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
Subjects: East African literature (English) -- History and criticism; East African literature -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- Africa, East; Popular culture -- Africa, East; Africa, East -- In literature; Africa, East -- Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: East African popular culture : an introduction / James Ogude & Joyce Nyairo; title: "Kaa masaa, grapple with spiders" : the myriad threads of Nairobi matatu discourse / Mbugua Wa Mungai; title: "We seek it here, we seek it there - that damn'd elusive nandi bear" / Elsie Cloete; title: "Christening fiction" : sermonising "the popular" in Whispers / George Ogola; title: Democrazy : laughter in Gado's editorial cartoons (1992-1999) / Grace A. Musila; title: "Modify" : Jua Kali as a metaphor for Africa's urban ethnicities and cultures / Joyce Nyairo; title: From the "English country garden" to "Makambo mibale" : popular culture in Kenya in the mid nineteen sixties / E.S. Atieno Odhiambo; title: "The cat that ended up eating the homestead chicken" : murder, memory and fabulization in D.O. Misiani's Dissident music / James Ogude; title: Popular culture in East African literature / Chris Wanjala; title: Alternative moral economies, crime and violence in Kenyan popular fiction / Tom Odhiambo; title: Romance, (in)visibility and agency in Grace Ogot's The strange bride and "The white veil" / Sophie Macharia; title: "Chira" and HIV/AIDS : the (re)construction of sexual moralities in Kenyan popular fiction / Agnes Muriungi.