Culture, Performance and Identity. : Paths of Communication in Kenya.
Title:
Culture, Performance and Identity. : Paths of Communication in Kenya.
Author:
Njogu, Kimani.
ISBN:
9789966028037
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (178 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE - Culture, Gender Inequality and Women's Rights in the Great Lakes -- CHAPTER TWO - Disability Rhetorics and Identity in Kenya -- CHAPTER THREE 'Lemme do m' thing': Objective Possibilities for Social Meaning and Re-visioning Youth Identity through Pop-Music -- CHAPTER FOUR - Sheng as a youth identity marker: Reality or Misconception? -- CHAPTER FIVE - Me, My KENYA and I -- CHAPTER SIX - Performing Identity in Kiswahili Literature -- CHAPTER SEVEN - Culture, Religion and Identity -- CHAPTER EIGHT - Circulation of media texts and identity (de) constructions in the post-colony -- CHAPTER NINE - Sing me a Life: Music as a people's identity -- Contributors -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
This book brings together essays which cover a number of key areas: Gender, Disability, Media, Sports, Literature, Religion, Land and Youth, Music. Through an examination of the situation in Kenya, the essays opens new ways of understanding forms of local.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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