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Critical readings on Eastern African autobiography

Title
Critical readings on Eastern African autobiography / edited by Jairus Omuteche and Tunai Kesero.
Publication
Glienicke : Galda Verlag, [2016]

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Additional Authors
  • Omuteche, Jairus
  • Tunai, Kesero
Description
vii, 244 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • East African literature > History and criticism
  • Autobiography
  • Autobiographies as Topic
  • Littérature est-africaine > Histoire et critique
  • Autobiographie
  • autobiography (genre)
  • East African literature
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The art of the autobiography and the construction of the self as a social being in Eastern Africa / Jairus Omuteche and Tunai Kesero, Masinde Muliro University of Science and technology -- East African immigrant autobiography : diasporic subjectivity and fragmented bodies / Delphine Fongang, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA -- Imperialism and globalization in framing diasporisity, cosmopolitanism and journeys of self-becoming in Yusuf K. Dawood's autobiography Nothing but the truth : the story of a surgeon and four wives / Jairus Omuteche, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya -- The promise in Mwalimu Julius Nyerere's speeches : the struggle for independence, the political journey and beyond the presidency / Obala F. Musumba and Clavery Kayugumi, Archbishop Mihayo University College of Tabora (a constituent college of St. Augustine University of Tanzania) -- Edwin Mtei's From a goatherd to governor and the politics of representation / Eliah S. Mwaifuge, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Kenya's historical retrospect through introspection : a critical analysis of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Dreams in a time of war and In the house of the interpreter / Ong'ang'a Alfred Mugambi, Archbishop Mihayo University College of Tabora (a constituent college of St. Augustine University of Tanzania) -- Whose book is this? : authorial collaboration in Njenga Karume's Beyond expectations : from charcoal to gold / Kesero Tunai, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya -- Structural cohesion in Bethwel Allan Ogot's autobiography My footprints on the sands of time / Rugh Flora Atsango, The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kisumu Campus, Kenya -- Crime and imprisonment as sites of struggle and empowerment in the postcolonial Kenyan popular autobiographies of John Kiriamiti / Isaac Ndlovu, English Department, University of Venda, South Africa -- Uncovering the (un)truths : transcending gender politics in the understanding of the Kenyan female criminal's prison narrative / Marciana Nafula Were, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
ISBN
  • 9783941267473
  • 3941267477
LCCN
  • 2016509223
  • 9783941267473
OCLC
  • ocn967146611
  • 967146611
  • SCSB-14451434
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries