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  title info:
    title: Land, freedom and fiction
    sub title: history and ideology in Kenya
  name:
    name part: Maughan Brown, David
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Clingman, Stephen.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: conference publication
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: 2nd ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (301 pages).
  abstract: A thought-provoking exploration of the Mau Mau uprising and its place in the literature and identity of Kenya.
  table of contents: Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Stephen Clingman; Preface and Acknowledgements; -- 1. Introduction; Ideology; Literary Theory; 2. 'Mau Mau' as a Historical Phenomenon; Problems of Definition; 'Causes' of the Revolt; Origins and Organisation of the 'Mau Mau' and History of the Oath; Conduct of the Campaign: 'Mau Mau Atrocities' and State and Settler Repression; Social Composition of the 'Mau Mau' Movement; Towards a Categorical Definition of the Movement; Ideologies of the History of 'Mau Mau'; The Colonial Interpretation and 'Mau Mau' Oathing Ceremonies.
  table of contents: Post-Independence Accounts: 'Mau Mau' Autobiographies and 'Progressive' and 'Reactionary' Nationalist Interpretations -- 3. Kenyan Colonial Settler Ideology; The Colonial Economy as a Determinant of Settler Ideology; Colonial Settler Ideology in its Aspect as Metropolitan Export; Colonial Settler Race Ideology: Myths and Stereotypes; Kenyan Colonial Settler Ideology as a Variant of Fascist Ideology; Terminology of Colonial Accounts of 'Mau Mau'; -- 4. Nothing of Value: Colonial Fiction about 'Mau Mau'; Fiction as Propaganda and the Settler Novelists.
  table of contents: The Embodiment in Fiction of Colonial Myths About 'Mau Mau'Fictional Devices Used in Propounding Colonial Settler Ideology; The Fiction's Rendering Visible of the Ideological Structures of Colonial Fascism; 5. 'Plus fa Change ... ': Liberal Fiction from the Metropolis; The Effect of Settler Propaganda on the Metropolitan Image of 'Mau Mau'; The 'Liberal' Fiction; -- 6. Economy, Politics and Ideology in Post-Independence Kenya; From Colonial to Neo-Colonial Economy; Key Components of the Dominant Ideology: 'Unity', the Kenyatta Myth, and the Rejection of 'Mau Mau'; -- 7. Novels of the 'Freedom'
  table of contents: Post-Independence Fiction as Praise-Song to the 'Leader'Further Resemblances to the Colonial Fiction: The Aesthetics of 'Balance' and the Politics of Contempt; -- 8. Not Yet the Freedom; The Changing Image of 'Mau Mau' in Ngugi's Novels; A Grain of Wheat as the Exemplary 'Crisis Text'; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
  note: David Maughan Brown.
  note: Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.
  note: Also published in printing.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  subject:
    topic: Kenyan fiction (English)
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism in literature
  subject:
    topic: Political fiction, English
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Literature & literary studies
  classification: PR9381.4
  classification: 823
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    title info:
      title: Land, Freedom and Fiction : History and Ideology in Kenya
    name:
      name part: Maughan Brown, David.
    origin info:
      publisher: London : Zed Books, ©2017
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    title info:
      title: African Culture Archive
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  access condition: Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 210311
    record change date: 20240130221236.0
    record identifier: in00004767760
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng