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Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction

Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture

By: Andrew Wafula Nyongesa

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Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction

Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture

By: Andrew Wafula Nyongesa

This book likens writers' incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy, and social stratification in societies to a naïve physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the blood. In the same way, the person who consistently blames their reckless conduct and shabbiness misses the point if they do not transform the actual cause of the problem: the mind. While most literary scholars problematize gender disparities, racial and political othering, oppression, environment degradation, education matters, poor parenting and governance, they tend to disregard the root cause: modernism. This book finds a gap in this grey area to address the authentic cause of the symptoms that most literary writers and scholars treat. Pertinent modernist tenets such as bureaucracy, the nation state, systematization and rationality, and dualism are at the heart of racism, corruption and other aforementioned symptoms. It is the contention of this study that postmodernism offers a comprehensive understanding of modernism to mitigate its effects on society"--

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The Water Cycle

By: Andrew Nyongesa

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The Water Cycle

By: Andrew Nyongesa

The Water Cycle is tremendously scenic and realistic in depiction of the plight of the African child in the midst of clash of Western and African cultures. This novel presents a captivating rendition of a clash of cultures and is a well-woven, heart rending tragedy of a man at the crossroads of two cultures.

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Mwanaka Media and Publishing

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0797494391

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Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction

Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture

By: Andrew Nyongesa

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Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction

Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture

By: Andrew Nyongesa

This book likens writers’ incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy and social stratification in societies to a naïve physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the blood. In the same way, persons who consistently blame their reckless conduct and shabbiness miss the point if they do not transform the actual cause of the problem: the mind. While most literary scholars problematise gender disparities, racial and political othering, oppression, environment degradation, education matters, poor parenting and governance, they tend to disregard the root cause: modernism. This book finds a gap in this grey area to address the authentic cause of the symptoms that most literary writers and scholars treat. Pertinent modernist tenets such as bureaucracy, the nation state, systematisation and rationality, and dualism are at the heart of racism, corruption and other aforementioned symptoms. It is the contention of this study that postmodernism offers a comprehensive understanding of modernism to mitigate its effects on society.

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Taylor & Francis

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100385480X

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9781003854807

The Water Cycle

By: Andrew Nyongesa

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African Books Collective

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0797496890

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9780797496897

Otherness and Pathology

The Fragmented Self and Madness in Contemporary African Fiction

By: Andrew Nyongesa

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Otherness and Pathology

The Fragmented Self and Madness in Contemporary African Fiction

By: Andrew Nyongesa

Scholars have problematized otherness and madness in diverse ways. There are those who hold that otherness is madness in itself of which leading voices are Michel Foucault and Gregory Reid. Other scholars contradict these voices and single out madness as a clinical condition that arises from strands of othering such as political, gender, class, age and racial. Frantz Fanon is the leading voice of this school of thought that demonstrates how othering destroys the psyche of the marginalised groups. This book extends Fanon's thesis with regard to madness in selected works of African fiction. Whereas Fanon stops at conceptualisation of the nexus between othering and madness, in this book, the authors incorporate the fragmented self, which is equally disabling.

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African Books Collective

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1779272642

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Cultural Hybridity and Fixity

Strategies of Resistance in Migration Literatures

By: Nyongesa, Andrew

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Cultural Hybridity and Fixity

Strategies of Resistance in Migration Literatures

By: Nyongesa, Andrew

Immigrants who travel and settle in foreign countries face challenges due to cultural differences or even deliberate segregation by dominant groups. In their attempt to negotiate their existence, some decide to stick to the culture of their mother nations and some stand in the middle, and blend some aspects of their mother culture and the new culture. Although immigrants who remain closer to their own cultures are easily spotted and relegated, they are assigned a place on the identity continuum, whereas immigrants who choose to stand in the middle run the danger of being neither this nor that, neither here nor there, and can undergo severe internal fragmentation. In this book, Cultural Hybridity and Fixity: Strategies of Resistance in Migration Literatures, Andrew Nyongesa delves into these two strategies of resistance and analyzes the merits and demerits of each with reference to Safi Abdi’s fiction.

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Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd

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0797495479

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9780797495470

A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism

Come Back Babar

By: Andrew Wafula Nyongesa

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A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism

Come Back Babar

By: Andrew Wafula Nyongesa

This book is response to the recent surge of formidable voices that consistently demean and attempt to reverse the gains of pan-Africanism. Besides questioning its relevance, these voices supplant essential tenets of pan-Africanism - Blackness, the narrative of Return, sanctity of the ancestral homeland, exposition of evils of colonialism and African Literature - with new postulations. These new suppositions deny race, accentuate onward migration, and diminish the ancestral homeland to any ordinary city to globetrot. These voices liken any reminiscence of colonial evils to Afro-pessimism, pronounce African Literature dead on arrival and proceed to 'substitute' pan-Africanism through studies, which neglect pioneer and contemporary literary works, cultural productions, folklore, conversations on social media (blogs, Facebook, Whatapp) and questionnaires to gauge their influence among Black people themselves. This study adopts a design that interrogates literary works, data from questionnaires and social media to determine the relevance and influence of pan-Africanism and the new paradigm"--

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1003481906

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Book's by Andrew Wafula Nyongesa

Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction

Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction

The Water Cycle

The Water Cycle

Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction

Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction

The Water Cycle

The Water Cycle

Otherness and Pathology

Otherness and Pathology

Cultural Hybridity and Fixity

Cultural Hybridity and Fixity

A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism

A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism

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