Urban obsessions, urban fears
Subtitle: the postcolonial Kenyan novel
By: J. Roger Kurtz.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Kenyan fiction (English) -- History and criticism.; Literature and society -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century.; Rural-urban migration in literature.; City and town life in literature.; Cities and towns in literature.; Postcolonialism in literature.; Postcolonialism -- Kenya.
Description: Kurtz's analysis of the development of the Kenyan novel in English emphasizes the historical contingencies affecting the production of literature in Kenya, and how succeeding generations have drawn from and expanded the thematic repertoire established by the "first generation" of works in the 1960s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-219) and index.