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Urban Obsessions, Urban Fears: The Postcolonial Kenyan Novel, Kurtz's analysis of the development of the Kenyan novel in English emphasizes the historical contingencies affecting the production of literature in Kenya, and how succeeding generations have drawn from and expanded the thematic repertoire established by , Urban Obsessions, Urban Fears: The Postcolonial Kenyan Novel
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  • Urban Obsessions, Urban Fears: The Postcolonial Kenyan Novel
  • Written by author J. Roger Kurtz
  • Published by Africa World Press, 1998/08/01
  • Kurtz's analysis of the development of the Kenyan novel in English emphasizes the historical contingencies affecting the production of literature in Kenya, and how succeeding generations have drawn from and expanded the thematic repertoire established by
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Preface
Introduction: The City, the Novel, and Postcolonial Kenya 1
Pt. I A Brief History of the Kenyan Novel
Ch. 1 Literary Barrenness? The Historical Context 13
Ch. 2 The 1960s: First Generation Novels 21
Ch. 3 The 1970s: Kenya's Literary Boom 33
Ch. 4 The 1980s and 1990s: The Post-Kenyatta Era 47
Pt. II Urban Obsessions, Urban Fears
Ch. 5 Postcolonial Urban Geography: The Evolution of Nairobi 71
Ch. 6 Heartbeats and Afromances: Popular Novels and the City 91
Ch. 7 Tracking the "Tramp of the Damned": The Novels of Meja Mwangi 111
Ch. 8 Nyapol's Daughters: Women and the City 133
Ch. 9 Conclusions: The City and the Postcolonial Imagination 155
Pt. III The Novels
Annotated Bibliography of the Kenyan Novel 163
Index 221


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