Studies on the aesthetic representations of atrocity the world over have taken different discursive dimensions from history, sociology, political to human rights. These perspectives are usually geared towards understanding the manifestations, extent, political and economic implications of atrocities. In all these cases, representation has been the singular concern. Cultural Archives of Atrocity: Essays on the Protest Tradition in Kenyan Literature, Culture and Society brings together generic ways of interrogating artistic representations of atrocity in Kenya. Couched on interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches, essays in this volume investigate representations of Atrocity in Kenyan Literature, Film, Popular Music and other mediated cultural art forms. Contributors to this volume not only bring on board multiple and competing perspectives on studying atrocity and how they are archived but provide refreshing and valuable insights in examining the artistic and cultural interpellations of atrocity within the socio-political imaginaries of the Kenyan nation. This volume forms part of the growing critical resources for scholars undertaking studies on atrocity within the fields of ethnic studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, peace and conflict, criminology, psychology, political economy and history in Kenya.
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Charles Kebaya holds a PhD in Television Drama Criticism from Kenyatta University and currently teaches Literature at Machakos University, Kenya.
Colomba Kaburi Muriungi is an associate professor of African Literature in the Department of Humanities and also the Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Chuka University, Kenya.
JKS Makokha is a Kenyan poet, critic, translator and academic. He is based in the Department of Literature, Kenyatta University.
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: Conceptualizing Representations of Atrocity in Art
PART ONE: Representations of Atrocity in the Contemporary Kenyan Novel
Narrating Trauma in Yvonne Owuor's Dust
An Eco-critical Reading of Voice of the People and Different Colours
Locating Bodies, Embodying Resistance: A Foucauldian Reading of Wahome Mutahi's Jail Bugs and Three Days on the Cross
Derision, Delirium and Denied Justice in Benjamin Garth Bundeh's Birds of Kamiti
Socio-Economic Atrocities in Meja Mwangi's Going Down River Road and Kinyanjui Kombani's The Last Villains of Molo
Symbolism of Human Relations in Narratives of Ethnic Violence in Kenya
Sycophants in a Cannibal State: Finding Kenya in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow
Negotiating the Vicious Cycle of Political Atrocities in Ngugi wa Thiongo's Wizard of the Crow
Gender-Based Atrocity in Kenyan Urban Women's Novel after 2000
Reading the Politics of Violence and Impunity in Pango and Kufa Kuzikana
Political Atrocity in Kenyan Swahili Novel after 2000
PART TWO: Narrating Mau Mau Violence and Trauma in the Kenyan Novel
Textual Subversion in the Representation of Mau Mau Atrocities in Settler Writing in Kenya
Grotesque Images of Colonial and Mau Mau Violence in Ngugi wa Thiongo's Weep Not Child and A Grain of Wheat
Emergency Trauma in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat
PART THREE: Representations of Atrocity in Popular Arts
Between fait accompli and eruptions of violence: Kenyan identity in Kwani's twin edition 2008
Confronting National Pain and Suffering through Judy Kibinge's Feature Film, Something Necessary
Screening Violence: the Production and Circulation of Films about the Kenyan Post-election Violence of 2007/2008
Bestial Zoosemic labeling in Kenyan Political Songs: A Conceptual Metaphor Perspective
Reading Kalenjin Popular Music as a Germ of Ethnic Violence
PART FOUR: Representations of Atrocity in Kenyan Poetry
Repression in the Poetry of Jared Angira
Poetry and Atrocity: An Analysis of Three Kiswahili Poets
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