Cultural Archives of Atrocity: Essays on the Protest Tradition in Kenyan Literature, Culture and Society

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Foreword
Introduction: Conceptualizing Representations of Atrocity in Art
PART 1 Representations of Atrocity in the Contemporary Kenyan Novel
	1 Narrating trauma in Yvonne Owuor’s Dust
	2 An Eco-critical Reading of Voice of the People and Different Colours
	3 Locating Bodies, Embodying Resistance in Wahome Mutahi’s Jail Bugs and Three Days on the Cross
	4 Derision, Delirium, and Denied Justice in Benjamin Garth Bundeh’s Birds of Kamiti
	5 Socio-economic Atrocities in Meja Mwangi’s Going Down River Road and Kinyanjui Kombani’s The Last Villains of Molo
	6 Symbolism of Human Relations in Kenyan Narratives of Ethnic Violence
	7 Sycophants in a Cannibal State: Kenya in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow
	8 Mediating the Vicious Cycle of Political Atrocities in Ngugi wa Thiongo’s Wizard of the Crow
	9 Gender-based Atrocity in Kenyan Urban Women’s Novel after 2000
	10 Reading the Politics of Violence and Impunity in Pango and Kufa Kuzikana
	11 Political Atrocity in Kenyan Swahili Novel after the Year 2000
PART 2 Narrating Mau Mau Violence and trauma in the Kenyan Novel
	12 Textual Subversion in the Representation of Mau Mau Atrocities in Settler Writing in Kenya
	13 Grotesque Images of Colonial and Mau Mau Violence in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not, Child and A Grain of Wheat
	14 Emergency-era trauma in Ngũgĩ wa thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat
PART 3 Representations of Atrocity in Popular Arts
	15 Between Fait Accompli and Eruptions of Violence: The Kenyan Social Imaginary in Selected Stories of Kwani?05
	16 Confronting National Pain and Suffering through Judy Kibinge’s Feature Film, Something Necessary
	17 Screening Violence and Reconciliation: The Production and Circulation of Films about the Kenyan Post-election Violence of 2007/2008
	18 Bestial Zoosemic Labelling in Kenyan Political Songs: A Conceptual Metaphor Perspective
	19 Reading Kalenjin Popular Music as a Gem of Ethnic Violence
PART 4 Representations of Atrocity in Kenyan Poetry
	20 Repression in the Poetry of Jared Angira
	21 Swahili Poetry and Atrocity in Postcolonial Kenya: Accounts of three Kiswahili Poets
Index