Popular Media in Kenyan History

Fiction and Newspapers as Political Actors

George Ogola (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XII, 180 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-84083-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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'

Erscheinungsdatum	28.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	African Histories and Modernities
Zusatzinfo	XII, 180 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	263 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	African subaltern • history of popular culture in Kenya • media and fiction in Africa • newspapers in African history • Wahome Mutahi
ISBN-10	3-319-84083-5 / 3319840835
ISBN-13	978-3-319-84083-3 / 9783319840833
Zustand	Neuware