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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828748703321

Titolo

Culture, performance & identity : paths of communication in Kenya / / edited by Kimani Njogu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Nairobi, Kenya, : Twaweza Communications, 2008

ISBN

1-283-06366-2

9786613063663

9966-028-03-X

9966-028-02-1

9966-028-01-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Collana

Art, culture & society ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

NjoguKimani

Disciplina

613

Soggetti

Communication and culture - Kenya

Ethnopsychology - Kenya

Identity (Psychology) - Kenya

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.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE - Culture, Gender Inequality and Women's Rights in the Great Lakes; CHAPTER TWO - Disability Rhetorics and Identity in Kenya; CHAPTER THREE  'Lemme do m' thing': Objective Possibilities for Social Meaning and Re-visioning Youth Identity through Pop-Music; CHAPTER FOUR - Sheng as a youth identity marker: Reality or Misconception?; CHAPTER FIVE - Me, My KENYA and I; CHAPTER SIX - Performing Identity in Kiswahili Literature; CHAPTER SEVEN - Culture, Religion and Identity

CHAPTER EIGHT - Circulation of media texts and identity (de) constructions in the post-colonyCHAPTER NINE - Sing me a Life: Music as a people's identity; Contributors; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings together essays which cover a number of key areas: Gender, Disability, Media, Sports, Literature, Religion, Land and Youth, Music. Through an examination of the situation in Kenya, the essays opens new ways of understanding forms of local