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Popular Media in Kenyan History
George Ogola
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Description for Popular Media in Kenyan History
Hardback. Series: African Histories and Modernities. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HBJH; JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 380.
The book examines popular fiction columns, a dominant feature in Kenyan newspapers, published in the twentieth century and examines their historical and cultural impact on Kenyan politics. The book interrogates how popular cultural forms such as popular fiction engage with and subject the polity to constant critique through informal but widely recognized cultural forms of censure. The book further explores the ways we see and experience how the African subaltern, through the everyday, negotiate their rights and obligations with the self, society and the state. Through these columns and their writers, the book examines the tensions that characterize such relationships, how the formal and ... Read more
The book examines popular fiction columns, a dominant feature in Kenyan newspapers, published in the twentieth century and examines their historical and cultural impact on Kenyan politics. The book interrogates how popular cultural forms such as popular fiction engage with and subject the polity to constant critique through informal but widely recognized cultural forms of censure. The book further explores the ways we see and experience how the African subaltern, through the everyday, negotiate their rights and obligations with the self, society and the state. Through these columns and their writers, the book examines the tensions that characterize such relationships, how the formal and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Series
African Histories and Modernities
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319490960
SKU
V9783319490960
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99-15
About George Ogola
George Ogola is Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.
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