Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction: Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture
Author:   Andrew Nyongesa (Murang'A University Of Technology)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   136
Publication Date:   29 February 2024
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Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction: Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture


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Author:   Andrew Nyongesa (Murang'A University Of Technology)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032577609


ISBN 10:   1032577606
Pages:   136
Publication Date:   29 February 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Acknowledgments Introduction by Prof. John Geofrey Mugubi 1. Interrogating the Individuated Self: Background of Modernism and Postmodernism 2. The Modern State and the Demise of Culture: Failure of Post Independent States in East African Fiction 3. Modernism and Automatisation: Mechanisation of Humanity in Contemporary East African Fiction 4. Modernism and Pathology: Othering and Self Fragmentation in Selected East African Fiction 5. Modernism and ‘Great Literature’: The Marking Guide and Death of the East African Literary Writer 6. SUMMARIES, CONCLUSIONS AND RESEARCH FINDINGS Index

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Andrew Nyongesa is currently a lecturer at Murang’a University of Technology (Kenya) and a writer of fiction. Some of his published works are The Endless Battle (2016), The Water Cycle (2018), Many in One and Other Stories (2019), The Armageddon and Other Stories (2020) and Say my Name and Other Stories from Home and Away (2021) all of which are based on postcolonialism and eco-criticism. His scholarly works include Cultural Fixity and Hybridity: Strategies of Resistance in Safi Abdi’s Fiction, 'Conversation with “other”: Style and Pathology in Selected African Novels' by Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies, 'Humanity and Mother Nature: Ecological Reading of Ole Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah' by Kenya Studies Review and 'Wagar and Motley “Archaic” Vestiges: A Postmodernist Reading of Contemporary Somalia Fiction' by Journal of Literary Studies. His latest publication is 'The Centre and Pathology: Postmodernist Reading of Madness in the Oppressor in Contemporary Fiction' by Cogent Arts and Humanities. His research interests are postcolonialism, postmodernism, speculative fiction, psychological criticism or stream of consciousness literature, Black aesthetics and eco-criticism. His PhD dissertation in the stream of consciousness literatures demonstrates his enthusiasm in mental health issues.

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