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Cultural Hybridity and Fixity

Strategies of Resistance in Migration Literatures

By: Andrew Nyongesa

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Cultural Hybridity and Fixity

Strategies of Resistance in Migration Literatures

By: Andrew Nyongesa

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 Abdis fiction.

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African Books Collective

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079749684X

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Tintinnabulation of Literary Theory

Traversing Genres to Contemporary Experience

By: Andrew Nyongesa

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Tintinnabulation of Literary Theory

Traversing Genres to Contemporary Experience

By: Andrew Nyongesa

There can never be literary growth in the contemporary world which is devoid of literary criticism, this is the backbone of literary theory. Literature is no longer a mere narration of stories, and prudent literary writers know that great literature is based on theoretical frameworks which give their works an edge in the intellectual world. In this book, Tintinnabulation of Literary Theory: Traversing Genres to Contemporary Experience, Andrew Nyongesa demonstrates how five theoretical frameworks, namely: Marxism, Feminism, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Stylistic are applied to genres of literature. The last chapter shows how theory has moved away from the lecture hall to real life experience. The book is a practical guide to university students and tutors of literature in their undying desire to embrace Literary Criticism.

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1779065140

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A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism

Come Back Babar

By: Andrew Nyongesa,John Mugubi

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A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism

Come Back Babar

By: Andrew Nyongesa,John Mugubi

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, WhatsApp) and questionnaires to gauge their influence among Black peoples 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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1040154085

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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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Re-centring Mother Earth

Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of Fiction

By: Andrew Nyongesa

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Re-centring Mother Earth

Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of Fiction

By: Andrew Nyongesa

Literary critics have focused on the nexus between literature and the ecological environment. As a mirror of society, literature encapsulates the natural ecosystem to address environmental degradation as one of the major issues being confronted by communities the world over. Individual literary critics have demonstrated how literary writers have deliberately presented the impact of Mother Nature on the lives of characters. However, most critics have hardly demonstrated the essential role of the ecological environment on the political, social and religious attributes of human life.in Re-centring Mother Earth: Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of Fiction, Andrew Nyongesa investigates the role of Mother Nature in the political, cultural, religious aspects of human life in contemporary novels. Using eco-criticism, the study challenges homocentric attributes of literature and shows how the ecological environment affects all facets of human life.

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1779243235

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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

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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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The Water Cycle

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Tintinnabulation of Literary Theory

Traversing Genres to Contemporary Experience

By: Andrew Nyongesa

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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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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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Cultural Hybridity and Fixity

Strategies of Resistance in Migration Literatures

By: Andrew Nyongesa

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Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction

Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture

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Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture

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A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism

Come Back Babar

By: Andrew Nyongesa,John Mugubi

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Otherness and Pathology

The Fragmented Self and Madness in Contemporary African Fiction

By: Andrew Nyongesa,Justus Kizito Makokha,Murimi Gaita

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Otherness and Pathology

The Fragmented Self and Madness in Contemporary African Fiction

By: Andrew Nyongesa,Justus Kizito Makokha,Murimi Gaita

This book extends Fanon's thesis with regard to madness in selected works of African fiction, in this book, the authors incorporate the fragmented self, which is equally disabling.

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A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism

Come Back Babar

By: Andrew Wafula Nyongesa

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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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Rise of Rodedom

By: Andrew Nyongesa

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Rise of Rodedom

By: Andrew Nyongesa

The Rise of Rodedom is a captivating allegory that predicts the unity and subsequent rise of Africa. The writer uses the images of cats and rodents to show the predator-prey relationship that existed between Western Europe and Africa up to the 20th century. He urges African people to redefine themselves by going back to the drawing board to rediscover a philosophy of their own. No civilization has ever challenged the world without unity and originality. The current trend of disunity and imitation will only lead Africa to catastrophe

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Cultural Hybridity and Fixity

Cultural Hybridity and Fixity

Tintinnabulation of Literary Theory

Tintinnabulation of Literary Theory

A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism

A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism

The Water Cycle

The Water Cycle

Re-centring Mother Earth

Re-centring Mother Earth

Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction

Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction

The Water Cycle

The Water Cycle

Tintinnabulation of Literary Theory

Tintinnabulation of Literary Theory

Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction

Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction

Cultural Hybridity and Fixity

Cultural Hybridity and Fixity

Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction

Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction

A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism

A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism

Otherness and Pathology

Otherness and Pathology

A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism

A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism

Rise of Rodedom

Rise of Rodedom

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