Title: Urban obsessions, urban fears
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: History, Literature and society, City and town life in literature, History and criticism, Cities and towns in literature, Kenyan fiction (English), Rural-urban migration in literature, Postcolonialism in literature, Postcolonialism, Decolonization in literature
Places: Kenya
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR9381.4 .K87 1998