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A death retold in truth and rumour : Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward murder /
Julie Ann Ward was a British tourist and wildlife photographer who went missing in Kenya's Maasai Mara Game Reserve in 1988 and was eventually found to have been murdered. Her death and the protracted search for her killers, still at large, were hotly contested in the media. Many theories emerg...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Suffolk :
James Currey,
2015.
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| Colección: | African articulations.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover; Contents; Photograph; Timeline; Maps; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Versions of Truth; Who was Julie Ward?; Exchanges in Contact Zones: Modernity and Africa; Fictions of the State; 2 Portrait of an Assassin State; The Ledger of Kenya's Assassinations; From White Man's Country to Uhuru; 3 Sex, Gender and the 'Criminal' State; Shadows of the 'Black Peril'; The Criminal State; The Sex Question in the Julie Ward Case; 4 Julie Ward's Death and the Kenyan Grapevine; Mapping the Julie Ward Grapevine; The Paradoxes of Modernity in Africa; Modernity and the Grapevine
- 5 Wildebeest, 'Noble Savages' and Moi's Kenya: Cultural Illiteracies in the Search for Julie Ward's KillersIn the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz and Baroness Blixen; Tourism and the Maasai Question in the Julie Ward Case; Double Realities and Trompes l'OEil: Playing Hide and Seek with the Master's Truths; 6 Farms in Africa: Wildlife Tourism, Conservation and Whiteness in Postcolonial Africa; Land, Wildlife and Whiteness in Post/Colonial Kenya; Poachers and Murderers: Ivory Hunters (1989) and the Cholmondeley Killings; Julie Ward and Postcolonial Whiteness in Kenya
- 7 Fault Lines in the Official British Response to the Julie Ward MurderBinary Lenses in John Ward's The Animals are Innocent; Behind The Scenes: The Foreign Office, the Secret Intelligence Service and the British High Commission in Kenya; Fictive Imaginings of British Interests in The Constant Gardener; 8 Engaging Modernity; Afterword; Bibliography; Index