Political Opression and Individual Alienation - Muindu, Japheth
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Muindu's work analyses the fictional rendition of inhuman politics in Moi's Kenya. The author analyses three novels by Wahome Mutahi, the renowned Kenyan humourist, and shows the individual alienation engendered by the political oppression obtaining in Kenya in the period spanned by the novels. He also explicates the resistances produced by this oppression and brings out the vision of social justice espoused in the three texts as the alienated characters endeavour to transcend their debilitating circumstances. The book is an insightful reading in popular fiction and the politics of nation building.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Muindu's work analyses the fictional rendition of inhuman politics in Moi's Kenya. The author analyses three novels by Wahome Mutahi, the renowned Kenyan humourist, and shows the individual alienation engendered by the political oppression obtaining in Kenya in the period spanned by the novels. He also explicates the resistances produced by this oppression and brings out the vision of social justice espoused in the three texts as the alienated characters endeavour to transcend their debilitating circumstances. The book is an insightful reading in popular fiction and the politics of nation building.
Autorenporträt
Japheth Peter Muindu is a lecturer in the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication at University of Kabianga in Kericho, Kenya. He holds a PhD in Literature from Moi University.