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

• Pubblicazione: Nairobi, Kenya, : Twaweza Communications, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (178 p.)
• Disciplina: 613
• Soggetto topico: Communication and culture - Kenya; Ethnopsychology - Kenya; Identity (Psychology) - Kenya
• Altri autori: NjoguKimani
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Culture, performance & identity
• ISBN: 1-283-06366-2; 9786613063663; 9966-028-03-X; 9966-028-02-1; 9966-028-01-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828748703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Art, culture & society series ; ; v. 2.