Narrating prison experience : human rights, self, society, and political incarceration in Africa.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walibora, Ken (Autor)
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] Common Ground 2013
Temas:
Political prisoners > Kenya.
Political prisoners' writings, Kenyan > Kenya.
Prisoners as authors.
Prisoners as authors > Kenya.
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency.
Prisonniers politiques > Kenya.
Écrivains prisonniers > Kenya.
Écrivains prisonniers.
Political prisoners
Political prisoners' writings, Kenyan
Prisoners as authors
Kenya
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Africa and political incarceration
  • Human rights and narratives of incarceration in the colonial Kenya
  • Political incarceration and the postcolonial period in Kenya
  • Chapter 1: A tale of two prison tales
  • Who are the Babukusu?
  • The Sela and Mwambu tale and incarceration
  • Power dynamics and belly politics
  • Gender prison and gender politics
  • Songs as subversion
  • The Waswahili people
  • The Liyongo epic as a prison narrative
  • The question of gender
  • The I-pronoun, truth, and trauma
  • Chapter 2: Articulating human rights violations in the pioneer prison memoir
  • A martyr in the making
  • The narrative imperative
  • Torture as human rights violation
  • The 'I' and the 'we'
  • Truth claims
  • Issues of style
  • Chapter 3: The tenor and genre of Ngugi's prison narrative
  • Narrator as harbinger of truth
  • Torture and trauma
  • Political manifesto and art manifesto
  • Foreshortened history of oppression
  • List of grievances
  • Calling audience to action
  • Chapter 4: Doing things with words in prison poetry
  • The multiple is and speaking in tongues
  • Why write?
  • Swahili prosody and poetry as autobiography
  • Resistance and truth
  • Masking the message
  • A range of miscellaneous voices
  • The journey motif
  • Voice of the unborn
  • Chapter 5: The quest for the right to be human in prison poetry
  • Where and why?
  • Dissipation and disappearance of hope
  • The female and parental selves
  • Disavowal of ideology
  • Trauma and tragedy
  • Comparing Mazrui's and Abdalla's prison poetry.

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