Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya [[electronic resource] /] / by S. Alam
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| Autore: |
Alam S
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| Titolo: |
Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya [[electronic resource] /] / by S. Alam
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 967.62/03 |
| 967.6203 | |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Kenya History Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya |
| ISBN: | 1-281-78074-X |
| 9786611780746 | |
| 0-230-60699-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782397803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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