Narrating prison experience : human rights, self, society, and political incarceration in Africa.
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| Author / Creator: | Walibora, Ken Author. |
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| Imprint: | [Place of publication not identified] Common Ground 2013 |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12869729 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.