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Urban Obsessions Urban Fears

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Author : John Roger Kurtz
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 1998

Urban Obsessions Urban Fears written by John Roger Kurtz and has been published by Africa World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Cities and towns in literature categories.

Kurtz's analysis the development of the Kenyan novel in English emphasizes the historical contingencies affecting the production of literature in Kenya, and how succeeding generations have drawn from and expanded the thematic repertoire established by the 'first generation' of works in the 1960s.He explores the relationship between the novel and the city, and how obsessions and fears about the urbanization have been expressed and represented through different generations of Kenyan writers. Kurtz has also put together the first annotated bibliography of all the anglophone Kenyan novels that have appeared since Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrote Weep Not, Child.Ngugi's Weep Not, Child made an immediate impact on its publication in 1964. Since then hundreds of novels by Kenyans have been published. This is a comprehensive introduction to the postcolonial novel in English. Three broad areas are identified: -- the first generation of the sixties -- the 'golden age' of the seventies -- and the years after Kenyatta in the 80s and 90sA unifying feature is an uneasy but marked emphasis on the city-particularly Nairobi. The city is used by novelists as both the site and the symbol for a range of obsessions and fears about postcolonial society. There is particular emphasis on the changing ways in which the city has been portrayed since Ngugi's first novel, the relation of popular literature to the city, the portrayal of women in the city and the special status of Meja Mwangi's urban novels.

G K Hall Interdisciplinary Bibliographic Guide To Black Studies

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Author : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

G K Hall Interdisciplinary Bibliographic Guide To Black Studies written by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with African Americans categories.

Urban Legends Colonial Myths

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Author : James Ogude
language : en
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Release Date : 2007

Urban Legends Colonial Myths written by James Ogude and has been published by Africa Research and Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Africa, East categories.

The Voluntary Sector In Urban Service Provision And Planning In Nairobi City Kenya

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Author : Kefa Mairura Otiso
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

The Voluntary Sector In Urban Service Provision And Planning In Nairobi City Kenya written by Kefa Mairura Otiso and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Associations, institutions, etc categories.

The British National Bibliography

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Author : Arthur James Wells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with English literature categories.

African Books In Print

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978

African Books In Print written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Africa categories.

Under Siege Four African Cities Freetown Johannesburg Kinshasa Lagos

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Author : Okwui Enwezor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Under Siege Four African Cities Freetown Johannesburg Kinshasa Lagos written by Okwui Enwezor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.

Today the procedural mechanisms of urban studies are working to interpret new urban paradigms that a century ago were largely absent in a great many cities around the world. African cities are becoming the exemplars for the emergence of new urban formations that are of great interest to many researchers working in the social sciences. This interest has brought into critical light how new urban agglomerations, arrangements, and institutions are emerging from the inadequacies of the public sector, proposing a modernizing cultural revision and a rearrangement of many of the essential elements of familial identification and authority. Out of these transformations, many of which are improvisatory, new types of relations and exchanges, survival and subsistence, forms of solidarity and resistance are produced. It is in the polymorphous and apparently chaotic logic of the postcolonial city that we may find the signs and new codes of expression of new urban identities in formation. Under Siege: Four African Cities underlines a central paradox that seems to rule the view of African cities, namely their inherent dynamism and obsolescence, and engages different kinds of understanding of subjectivity and the cultural, political, social sphere of present day African urban conditions.