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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-013.mrc:298354794:2816
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008 071215t20072007njua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006028423
020 $a1592214983 (hardcover)
020 $a9781592214983 (hardcover)
020 $a1592214991 (pbk.)
020 $a9781592214990 (pbk.)
024 $a99818716251
035 $a(OCoLC)71275441
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050 00 $aPR9340.5$b.U73 2007
082 00 $a820.9/9676$222
245 00 $aUrban legends, colonial myths :$bpopular culture and literature in East Africa /$cedited by James Ogude and Joyce Nyairo.
260 $aTrenton, NJ :$bAfrica World Press,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $avi, 337 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [307]-329) and index.
505 0 $aEast 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 popular fiction / Agnes Muriungi.
650 0 $aEast African literature (English)$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEast African literature$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aAfrica, East$xIn literature.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zAfrica, East.
650 0 $aPopular culture$zAfrica, East.
651 0 $aAfrica, East$xIntellectual life.
700 1 $aOgude, James.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99023228
700 1 $aNyairo, Joyce.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006065650
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0620/2006028423.html
852 00 $bglx$hPR9340.5$i.U73 2007