Decolonising Childhoods in Eastern Africa Literary and Cultural Representations

This book deconstructs Eurocentric narratives and showcases local voices to re-examine childhood in Eastern Africa.
Moving away from portrayals of eastern African childhood as characterised by want, the author argues for a differentiated and pluralist nature of the eastern African childhood. Taking a chronological approach, the author provides a multidisciplinary critical reading of Africanist research on childhood in eastern Africa, drawing from anthropological and cultural studies, while examining writings from the pre-imperial and colonial periods. Moving into the contemporary period, the book reveals the continuity, tensions and ruptures of these portrayals in humanitarian, legal, and journalistic discourses, before exploring postcolonial writings on childhood in works by Eastern African novelists.
Based on such a multidisciplinary perspective, this book will be of interest to scholars of African literature, eastern African history, critical childhood studies, museums and Africanist epistemologies.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Oduor Obura holds a PhD from the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Zusammenfassung

This book deconstructs Eurocentric narratives and showcases local voices to re-examine childhood in Eastern Africa.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Oduor (University of Potsdam Obura, Oduor Obura
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2023
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Neuzeit bis 1918; Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik
• EAN: 9780367703905
• ISBN: 978-0-367-70390-5
• Anzahl Seiten: 188
• Serie: Routledge African Studies
• Themen: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, East Africa, Postcolonial Studies, Literary studies: general, Age groups: children, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies, African Epistemologies, humanitarian discourse analysis, multidisciplinary childhood research Africa, anthropological perspectives Africa, colonial period narratives, Critical Childhood Studies