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Popular Media in Kenyan History: Fiction and Newspapers as Political Actors: African Histories and Modernities

Autor George Ogola
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The book examines popular fiction columns, a dominant feature in Kenyan newspapers, published in the twentieth century and examines their historical and cultural impact on Kenyan politics. The book interrogates how popular cultural forms such as popular fiction engage with and subject the polity to constant critique through informal but widely recognized cultural forms of censure. The book further explores the ways we see and experience how the African subaltern, through the everyday, negotiate their rights and obligations with the self, society and the state. Through these columns and their writers, the book examines the tensions that characterize such relationships, how the formal and informal interpenetrate, how the past and present are reconciled, and how the local and transnational collide but also collude in the making of the Kenyan identity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319840833
ISBN-10: 3319840835
Pagini: 180
Ilustrații: XII, 180 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria African Histories and Modernities

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Popular Anxieties, Popular Expressions: An Introduction.- 2. Re-reading the ‘Popular’ in African Popular Culture.- 3. Recuperating the ‘Popular’ in Kenyan Literature.- 4. Popular Fiction and the Popular Press in Kenya.- 5. Whispers and the Politics of the Everyday.- 6. Whispers as a Political Text.- 7. Christianity and the Construction of Popular Agency in Whispers.- 8. The Text and its Publics: ‘Making’ the Audience in Whispers.- 9. Conclusion: Popular ‘Futures’

Notă biografică

George Ogola is Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

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The book examines popular fiction columns, a dominant feature in Kenyan newspapers, published in the twentieth century and examines their historical and cultural impact on Kenyan politics. The book interrogates how popular cultural forms such as popular fiction engage with and subject the polity to constant critique through informal but widely recognized cultural forms of censure. The book further explores the ways we see and experience how the African subaltern, through the everyday, negotiate their rights and obligations with the self, society and the state. Through these columns and their writers, the book examines the tensions that characterize such relationships, how the formal and informal interpenetrate, how the past and present are reconciled, and how the local and transnational collide but also collude in the making of the Kenyan identity. 

Caracteristici

Provides a thoroughly interdisciplinary analysis of the the relationship between African historical methods of censure in the media with contemporary African political decisions Examines rare primary source material unavailable to most scholars of African studies Explores the broader historical, intellectual, and literary traditions within which popular fiction in Kenya is produced