Popular Media in Kenyan History - Fiction and Newspapers as Political Actors (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	African Histories and Modernities
Release date:	February 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	George Ogola
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	180
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-49096-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > History > African history > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-49096-6
Barcode:	9783319490960

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