A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour – Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder: African Articulations
Autor Grace A. Musilaen Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 noi 2015
At the core of Musila's study are thefollowing questions: why would this young woman's death be the subject of such strong contestations of ideas and multiple truths? And what does this reveal about cultural productions of truth and knowledge in Kenya and Britain, particularly in the light of the responses to her disappearance of the Kenyan police, the British Foreign Office, and the British High Commission in Nairobi.
Building on existing scholarship on African history, narrative, gender and postcolonial studies, the author reveals how the Julie Ward murder and its attendant discourses offer insights into the journeys of ideas, and how these traverse the porous boundaries of the relationship between Kenya and Britain, and, by extension, Africa and the Global North.
Grace A. Musila is a lecturer in the English Department of Stellenbosch University, South Africa
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781847011275
ISBN-10: 1847011276
Pagini: 233
Dimensiuni: 164 x 240 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: James Currey
Seria African Articulations
ISBN-10: 1847011276
Pagini: 233
Dimensiuni: 164 x 240 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: James Currey
Seria African Articulations
Notă biografică
Grace A. Musila
Cuprins
Introduction: Versions of Truth Portrait of an Assassin State Sex, Gender and the 'Criminal' State Julie Ward's Death and the Kenyan Grapevine Wildebeest, 'Noble Savages' and Moi's Kenya: Cultural Illiteracies in the Search for Julie Ward's Killers Farms in Africa: Wildlife Tourism, Conservation and Whiteness in Postcolonial Africa Faultlines in the Official British Response to the Julie Ward Mystery Engaging Modernity Afterword by Stephanie Newell
Descriere
Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been reported and investigated.