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.

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Oduor (University of Potsdam Obura, Oduor Obura
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 31.07.2021
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica
• EAN: 9780367685614
• ISBN: 978-0-367-68561-4
• Numero di pagine: 188
• Serie: Routledge African Studies
• Categorie: Au, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, East Africa, Museum of Natural History, Postcolonial Studies, Literary studies: general, North, Age groups: children, Humanitarian Aid, 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, Pate Island, Bula Matari, Colonial Kenya, Colonial Congo, Bang Bang Club, Northern Frontier District, Postcolonial childhoods, Twum Danso Imoh, Baganda People, Colonial Travellers, Local Childhoods, Frontier Africans, Aid Organisation, Juvenile Body, Humanitarian Organisation, Convivial Frontier, Postcolonial Uganda