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Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya / by S. Alam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alam, S. M. Shamsul, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africa--History.
- Africa.
- Africa--Politics and government.
- Asia--History.
- Asia.
- Ethnology--Africa.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- Sociology.
- History, Modern.
- African History.
- African Politics.
- Asian History.
- African Culture.
- Modern History.
- Local Subjects:
- African History.
- African Politics.
- Asian History.
- African Culture.
- Sociology.
- Modern History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611780746
- 9781281780744
- 128178074X
- 9780230606999
- 0230606997
- OCLC:
- 314799491
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