Women''s Literature in Kenya and Uganda - The Trouble With Modernity

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

MARIE KRUGER Assistant Professor in the English department at the University of Iowa, USA.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: M Kruger, M. Kruger
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.02.2016
• EAN: 9781349291748
• ISBN: 978-1-349-29174-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; B, Gender Studies, Literature, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Language: reference & general, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, World Literature, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Philosophy, Asian, Non-Western philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Palgrave Literature Collection, Postcolonial/World Literature, African Culture, Ethnology—Africa, African Literature, African Languages, Literature: history and criticism