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Land, Freedom and Fiction - History and Ideology in Kenya (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
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Land, Freedom and Fiction - History and Ideology in Kenya (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
Series: African Culture Archive
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This now classic work examines the contrasting ways in which the
Mau Mau struggle for land and independence in Kenya was mirrored,
and usually distorted, by successive generations of English and
white Kenyan authors, as well as by indigenous Kenyan novelists.
Against the turbulent background of the Mau Mau Uprising, Dr
Maughan-Brown explores the relationship between history, literary
creation and the myths that societies cultivate. Spanning the
breadth of colonial and post-colonial African literature, his
subjects range from the colonialist authors Robert Ruark and
Elspeth Huxley to the post-independence novels of Meja Mwangi and
Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Maughan-Brown's book is invaluable on many
levels. He presents a concise account of the uprising and its place
in Kenyan identity, and significantly increases our understanding
of settler attitudes and the role of literature within colonial
ideology. Land, Freedom and Fiction succeeds in showing the subtle
insights a materialist approach can bring to the study of
literature, ideology and society.
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