Women's literature in Kenya and Uganda : the trouble with modernity

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Title:

Author:

Krèuger, Marie.

ISBN:

9780230108875

Personal Author:

Krèuger, Marie.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Physical Description:

x, 262 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents:

Kenyan and Ugandan (women's) literature: the trouble with modernity -- Promise and fraud -- Historical modernities -- The dark sides of modernity -- Mapping global modernities -- "The state of tides" and the ethics of responsibility.

Subject Term:

Kenyan literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.

Ugandan literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.

Women and literature -- Africa.

Civilization, Modern, in literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

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Summary

For nearly a decade, writers' collectives such as Kwani Trust in Kenya and Femrite , the Ugandan women writers' association, have dramatically reshaped the East African literary scene. This text extends the purview of postcolonial literary studies by providing the long overdue critical inquiry that these writers so urgently deserve.