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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782397803321

Autore

Alam S

Titolo

Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya [[electronic resource] /] / by S. Alam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007

ISBN

1-281-78074-X

9786611780746

0-230-60699-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

967.62/03

967.6203

Soggetti

Africa—History

Africa—Politics and government

Asia—History

Ethnology—Africa

Sociology

History, Modern

African History

African Politics

Asian History

African Culture

Sociology, general

Modern History

Kenya History Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960

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.