History and Violence in Contemporary Kenyan Fiction

Standpoints on Yvonne Owuor's Writings
Herausgeber: Siundu, Godwin

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 181mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781032408255
• ISBN-10: 1032408251
• Artikelnr.: 65919505

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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