Author

Publication

2017 - Springer International Publishing AG

Language

English

Word Count

45,000 words, Guess

Page Count

180 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139783319490960
  • ISBN-103319490966
  • OCLC Control Number960835575
  • Better World Books9783319490960
  • Open LibraryOL37268948M

Classifications

  • LCCDT348-363.3
  • LCCP96.H552 K46 2017

Description

"The book examines popular fiction columns, a dominant feature in Kenyan newspapers, published in the twentieth century and examines their historical and cultural impact on Kenyan politics. The book interrogates how popular cultural forms such as popular fiction engage with and subject the polity to constant critique through informal but widely recognized cultural forms of censure. The book further explores the ways we see and experience how the African subaltern, through the everyday, negotiate their rights and obligations with the self, society and the state. Through these columns and their writers, the book examines the tensions that characterize such relationships, how the formal and informal interpenetrate, how the past and present are reconciled, and how the local and transnational collide but also collude in the making of the Kenyan identity" --

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Popular Media in Kenyan History: Fiction and Newspapers As Political ActorsSpringer International Publishing AG2017-01-01

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