An edition of Urban Legends, Colonial Myths
(2006)
Urban legends, colonial myths
popular culture and literature in East Africa
by James Ogude and Joyce Nyairo; editors
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East African literature (English), In literature, Literature and society, East African literature, Intellectual life, Popular culture, History and criticism, Africa, intellectual life, Africa, in literature, Popular culture, africa, East african literature (english)--history and criticism, East african literature--history and criticism, Literature and society--africa, east, Popular culture--africa, east, Pr9340.5 .u73 2007, 820.9/9676| Edition | Availability |
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Urban Legends, Colonial Myths: Popular Culture and Literature in East Africa
January 23, 2007, Africa World Press, Inc.
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in English
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Urban legends, colonial myths: popular culture and literature in East Africa
2006, Africa World Press
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1592214983 9781592214983
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Table of Contents
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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