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Informationen zum Autor MARIE KRUGER Assistant Professor in the English department at the University of Iowa, USA. Klappentext For nearly a decade, writers' collectives such as Kwani Trust in Kenya and Femrite , the Ugandan women writers' association, have dramatically reshaped the East African literary scene. This text extends the purview of postcolonial literary studies by providing the long overdue critical inquiry that these writers so urgently deserve. Zusammenfassung For nearly a decade! writers' collectives such as Kwani Trust in Kenya and Femrite ! the Ugandan women writers' association! have dramatically reshaped the East African literary scene. This text extends the purview of postcolonial literary studies by providing the long overdue critical inquiry that these writers so urgently deserve. Inhaltsverzeichnis Promise and Fraud: The Politics and Poetics of the Modern Historical Modernities: Epics of Love and Literacy The Dark Sides of Modernity: Citizens, Strangers, and the Production of Moral Indifference Mapping Global Modernities: Property and Propriety in the Time of AIDS 'The State of Tides' and the Ethics of Responsibility
