Urban legends, colonial myths popular culture and literature in East Africa
East African popular culture : an introduction / James Ogude & Joyce Nyairo -- "Kaa masaa, grapple with spiders" : the myriad threads of Nairobi matatu discourse / Mbugua Wa Mungai -- "We seek it here, we seek it there - that damn'd elusive nandi bear" / Elsie Cloete --...
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Sprache: | eng |
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Trenton, NJ u.a.
Africa World Press
2007
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Ausgabe: | 1. print |
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Zusammenfassung: | East African popular culture : an introduction / James Ogude & Joyce Nyairo -- "Kaa masaa, grapple with spiders" : the myriad threads of Nairobi matatu discourse / Mbugua Wa Mungai -- "We seek it here, we seek it there - that damn'd elusive nandi bear" / Elsie Cloete -- "Christening fiction" : sermonising "the popular" in Whispers / George Ogola -- Democrazy : laughter in Gado's editorial cartoons (1992-1999) / Grace A. Musila -- "Modify" : Jua Kali as a metaphor for Africa's urban ethnicities and cultures / Joyce Nyairo -- From the "English country garden" to "Makambo mibale" : popular culture in Kenya in the mid nineteen sixties / E.S. Atieno Odhiambo -- "The cat that ended up eating the homestead chicken" : murder, memory and fabulization in D.O. Misiani's Dissident music / James Ogude -- Popular culture in East African literature / Chris Wanjala -- Alternative moral economies, crime and violence in Kenyan popular fiction / Tom Odhiambo -- Romance, (in)visibility and agency in Grace Ogot's The strange bride and "The white veil" / Sophie Macharia -- "Chira" and HIV/AIDS : the (re)construction of sexual moralities in Kenyan popular fiction / Agnes Muriungi |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | VI, 337 Seiten Illustrationen |
ISBN: | 1592214983 1-59221-498-3 1592214991 1-59221-499-1 |