Rethinking Mau Mau in colonial Kenya

Introduction: hegemony and counter-hegemony in colonial context -- On colonial hegemony -- On colonial counter-hegemony -- White frogs and iron snake: colonialism in Kenya -- Organization of the book -- Domination and its resistance : writings on Mau Mau -- Prose of Mau Mau (counter) insurgency -- P...

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1. Verfasser: Alam, S. M. Shamsul (VerfasserIn)
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Veröffentlicht: New York, NY u.a. Palgrave Macmillan 2007
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: hegemony and counter-hegemony in colonial context -- On colonial hegemony -- On colonial counter-hegemony -- White frogs and iron snake: colonialism in Kenya -- Organization of the book -- Domination and its resistance : writings on Mau Mau -- Prose of Mau Mau (counter) insurgency -- Primary discourse -- Secondary discourse -- Tertiary discourse -- Mau Mau and subaltern history -- Rebel yell : the field marshal's story -- The Kikuyu land -- The rebel as field marshal -- The field marshal as seen by his comrades -- The field marshal in the Kenyan creative writings -- Women and Mau Mau -- Colonial construction of Kenyan women -- Women of Fort Hall, Central Province, Kenya -- Women's participation in Mau Mau : a general analysis -- Women and the passive wing of Mau Mau -- Women and the military wing of Mau Mau -- A fight of her own : a conversation with Anna Wamuyu, alias Cinda Reri -- Mau Mau and the critique of nationalism -- On the discourse of nationalism : Fanon and Chatterjee -- Kenyatta's facing Mount Kenya and pitfalls of cultural -- Construction of nationalism -- Writings as subversion : Ngui Wa Thiongo's Mau Mau -- Governmentality and the post-colonial conditions in Kenya -- Ngugi wa Thiongo'o and post-colonial organic intellectuals -- Writing Mau Mau/writing resistance -- The exile : alienation and disenchantment or rebel as an outsider? -- Mau Mau in/as colonial discourse -- Colonial discourse in Africa -- F.D. Cornfield's historical survey of the origin and growth of Mau Mau -- L.s.b. leakey's defeating mau mau and mau mau and kikuyu -- J.c. carother's the psychology of Mau Mau -- The subaltern writes back -- Sources of subaltern history -- Subalternity and Mau Mau autobiography -- Henry W. Wachanga : the swords of Kirinyaga -- Waruhiu Itote (general China): Mau Mau general and Mau Mau in action -- Donald L. Barnet and Karari Njama : Mau Mau from within -- Mau Mau songs and subaltern consciousness -- Conclusion : a presentist approach to Mau Mau
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP
Beschreibung:XIII, 249 S.
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ISBN:1403983747
1-4039-8374-7
9781403983749
978-1-4039-8374-9