Text : An Interdisciplinary journal for the study of discourse

• Record Nr.: UNINA990009067210403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, : [s.n.]
• ISSN: 0165-4888
• Disciplina: 001.51
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico

Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya / / by S. Alam

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910972921803321
• Autore: Alam S. M. Shamsul <1956->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007
• ISBN: 9786611780746; 9781281780744; 128178074X; 9780230606999; 0230606997
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2007.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Disciplina: 967.62/03
• Soggetti: Africa - History; Africa - Politics and government; Asia - History; Ethnology - Africa; Culture; Sociology; History, Modern; African History; African Politics; Asian History; African Culture; Modern History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : hegemony and counterhegemony in colonial context -- Domination and its resistance : writings on Mau Mau -- Rebel yell : the field marshal's story -- Women and Mau Mau -- Mau Mau and the critique of nationalism -- Writing as subversion : Ngui wa Thiong'o's Mau Mau -- Mau Mau in and as colonial discourse -- The subaltern writes back -- Conclusion : a presentist approach to Mau Mau.
• Sommario/riassunto: This offers an alternative to the colonialistand nationalist explanations of the Mau Mau revolt, examining a widely studied period of Kenyan history from a new perspective.