Land, Freedom and Fiction: History and Ideology in Kenya

Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword by Stephen Clingman
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
	Ideology
	Literary Theory
2. \'Mau Mau\' as a Historical Phenomenon
	Problems of Definition
	\'Causes\' of the Revolt
	Origins and Organisation of the \'Mau Mau\' and History of the Oath
	Conduct of the Campaign: \'Mau Mau Atrocities\' and State and Settler Repression
	Social Composition of the \'Mau Mau\' Movement
	Towards a Categorical Definition of the Movement
	Ideologies of the History of \'Mau Mau\'
		The Colonial Interpretation and \'Mau Mau\' Oathing Ceremonies
		Post-Independence Accounts: \'Mau Mau\' Autobiographies and \'Progressive\' and \'Reactionary\' Nationalist Interpretations
3. Kenyan Colonial Settler Ideology
	The Colonial Economy as a Determinant of Settler Ideology
	Colonial Settler Ideology in its Aspect as Metropolitan Export
	Colonial Settler Race Ideology: Myths and Stereotypes
	Kenyan Colonial Settler Ideology as a Variant of Fascist Ideology
	Terminology of Colonial Accounts of \'Mau Mau\'
4. Nothing of Value: Colonial Fiction about \'Mau Mau\'
	Fiction as Propaganda and the Settler Novelists
	The Embodiment in Fiction of Colonial Myths About \'Mau Mau\'
	Fictional Devices Used in Propounding Colonial Settler Ideology
	The Fiction\'s Rendering Visible of the Ideological Structures of Colonial Fascism
5. \'Plus fa Change ...\': Liberal Fiction from the Metropolis
	The Effect of Settler Propaganda on the Metropolitan Image of \'Mau Mau\'
	The \'Liberal\' Fiction
6. Economy, Politics and Ideology in Post-Independence Kenya
	From Colonial to Neo-Colonial Economy
	Key Components of the Dominant Ideology: \'Unity\', the Kenyatta Myth, and the Rejection of \'Mau Mau\'
7. Novels of the \'Freedom\'
	Post-Independence Fiction as Praise-Song to the \'Leader\'
	Further Resemblances to the Colonial Fiction: The Aesthetics of \'Balance\' and the Politics of Contempt
8. Not Yet the Freedom
	The Changing Image of \'Mau Mau\' in Ngugi\'s Novels
	A Grain of Wheat as the Exemplary \'Crisis Text\'
	Conclusion
Bibliography
Index