Narrating prison experience
Subtitle: human rights, self, society, and political incarceration in Africa
By: Ken Walibora Waliaula
Publisher: Common Ground
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Champaign, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781612292168; 9781612292175
Subjects: Political prisoners; Political prisoners' writings, Kenyan; Prisoners as authors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-121).
Table of contents: title: Africa and political incarceration; title: Human rights and narratives of incarceration in the colonial Kenya; title: Political incarceration and the postcolonial period in Kenya; title: Chapter 1: A tale of two prison tales; title: Who are the Babukusu?; title: The Sela and Mwambu tale and incarceration; title: Power dynamics and belly politics; title: Gender prison and gender politics; title: Songs as subversion; title: The Waswahili people; title: The Liyongo epic as a prison narrative; title: The question of gender; title: The I-pronoun, truth, and trauma; title: Chapter 2: Articulating human rights violations in the pioneer prison memoir; title: A martyr in the making; title: The narrative imperative; title: Torture as human rights violation; title: The 'I' and the 'we'; title: Truth claims; title: Issues of style; title: Chapter 3: The tenor and genre of Ngugi's prison narrative; title: Narrator as harbinger of truth; title: Torture and trauma; title: Political manifesto and art manifesto; title: Foreshortened history of oppression; title: List of grievances; title: Calling audience to action; title: Chapter 4: Doing things with words in prison poetry; title: The multiple is and speaking in tongues; title: Why write?; title: Swahili prosody and poetry as autobiography; title: Resistance and truth; title: Masking the message; title: A range of miscellaneous voices; title: The journey motif; title: Voice of the unborn; title: Chapter 5: The quest for the right to be human in prison poetry; title: Where and why?; title: Dissipation and disappearance of hope; title: The female and parental selves; title: Disavowal of ideology; title: Trauma and tragedy; title: Comparing Mazrui's and Abdalla's prison poetry.