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Urban obsessions, urban fears : the postcolonial Kenyan novel

Title: Urban obsessions, urban fears : the postcolonial Kenyan novel / J. Roger Kurtz.
Author: Kurtz, John Roger.
Publication: Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, ©1998.

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Description

viii, 228 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Kurtz's analysis of the development of the Kenyan novel in English emphasizes the historical contingencies affecting the production of literature in Kenya, and how succeeding generations have drawn from and expanded the thematic repertoire established by the "first generation" of works in the 1960s.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-219) and index.

Contents

Introduction. The city, the novel, and postcolonial Kenya -- pt. I.A brief history of the Kenyan novel -- ch. 1. Literary barrenness? : the historical context -- ch. 2. The 1960s : first generation novels -- ch. 3. The 1970s : Kenya's literary boom -- ch. 4. The 1980s and 1990s : the post-Kenyatta era -- pt. II. Urban obsessions, urban fears -- ch. 5. Postcolonial urban geography : the evolution of Nairobi -- ch. 6. Heartbeats and Afromances : popular novels and the city -- ch. 7. Tracking the "Tramp of the damned" : the novels of Meja Mwangi -- ch. 8. Nyapol's daughters : women and the city -- ch. 9. Conclusions : the city and the postcolonial imagination -- pt. III. The novels -- An annotated bibliography of the Kenyan novel.

ISBN

0865436568
9780865436565
0865436576
9780865436572
0852555504
9780852555507

LCCN

98034805

OCLC

ocm39368585
39368585
SCSB-14127050

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library