History and Violence in Contemporary Kenyan Fiction - Standpoints on Yvonne Owuor’s Writings

This book is a collection of essays on Yvonne Owuor's writings, mainly her most acclaimed novel, Dust as well as Dragonfly Sea and her short story "Weight of Whispers".

It was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Swahili Seafarers' Musings and Sensuous Seascapes in Yvonne Owuor's The Dragonfly Sea 3. Surviving the Genocide: The Singularity of Suffering in Yvonne Owuor's "Weight of Whispers" 4. Migrancy as Trauma: Yvonne Owuor's "Weight of Whispers" 5. Rhizomic Writing and Reading of a Nation Coming to Birth in Yvonne A. Owuor's Novel, Dust 6. The Use of Ellipsis as a Narrative Technique in Yvonne Owuor's Dust 7. Why and to Where does Ajany Run? Culture and Femininity in Yvonne Owuor's Dust 8. Narrating Kenyan Silenced Histories through Fiction in Yvonne Owuor's Dust 9. Let's Talk About Craft! A Conversation with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

About the author

Godwin Siundu is Senior Lecturer at the University of Nairobi's Department of Literature, and Co-founding Editor of the journal of Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies. He researches mainly in literatures and cultures of South Asian diasporas, and has published articles in Research in African Literatures, PMLA, Journal of African Cultural Studies, and South Asian Diaspora, among other journals and edited books.

Summary

This book is a collection of essays on Yvonne Owuor’s writings, mainly her most acclaimed novel, Dust as well as Dragonfly Sea and her short story “Weight of Whispers”. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Godwin Siundu (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032408262
• ISBN: 978-1-032-40826-2
• No. of pages: 114
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); FICTION / General, FICTION / Literary, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, Kenya, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies