Popular Media in Kenyan History

Fiction and Newspapers as Political Actors
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-84083-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 261 g

Reihe: African Histories and Modernities

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 informal interpenetrate, how the past and present are reconciled, and how the local and transnational collide but also collude in the making of the Kenyan identity.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ogola, George

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Massenmedien & Massenkommunikation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Popular Anxieties, Popular Expressions: An Introduction.- 2. Re-reading the ‘Popular’ in African Popular Culture.- 3. Recuperating the ‘Popular’ in Kenyan Literature.- 4. Popular Fiction and the Popular Press in Kenya.- 5. Whispers and the Politics of the Everyday.- 6. Whispers as a Political Text.- 7. Christianity and the Construction of Popular Agency in Whispers.- 8. The Text and its Publics: ‘Making’ the Audience in Whispers.- 9. Conclusion: Popular ‘Futures’

Über Autor(innen)

George Ogola is Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.