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Brave new world – a reading of the unbroken spirit and the verdict of death 

Unknown author (2015)
This is a stylistic analysis of two novels published in Africa in the twenty-first century. Fifty years ago, when the publishing apparatus was controlled by the European colonial regime, an African writer not only had to ...
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The Significance, For Readers in the Twenty-First Century, Of the Character of Safie in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 

Mbithi, Esther K . (Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2016)
This paper presents a critical look at one of the characters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Safie, through the lenses of a female African scholar in the twenty-first century. A close look at the narrative structure leads ...
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Imagi(ni)ng people with special needs through literary artistry: an analysis of the oral narrative motif of the princess who could not smile. 

Mwai, W. (Science Journal Publication, 2012)
This paper is developed from research in the oral narratives of the Agikuyu. The paper revisits the portrait of persons with special needs in a selected thematic area in Oral Literature, the motif of The princess who ...
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Mirroring the Subtext: Postmodernism in Ngugi wa Thiongo's Wizard of the Crow 

Maina, Oscar Macharia (Journal of Language, Technology and Entrepreneurship in Africa, 2007)
This reading of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow attempts to place the text in the postmodern writing tradition. We point out how surrealistic features are utilized to enhance the themes, style, and the author's ...
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Changing Trends in Bedtime Story Reading Habits of Children: A Comparative Study of African and European Children’s Literature 

Duhoe, Alberta Aseye Ama; Adansi, Joana Emefa (Royallite Global, 2020)
Children are often inspired by tales, rhymes and songs of various kinds globally. Mostly, children in developed countries are exposed to cartoons online and puzzles that tell stories. Before the emergence of modern ...
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Why and to Where does Ajany Run? Culture and Femininity in Yvonne Owuor’s Dust 

Mbith, Esther K.; Karumba, Julia Njeri (Taylor & Francis, 2021-09-09)
Launched around the time Kenya was marking fifty years of independence, Yvonne Owuor’s Dust has been described as a ‘cultural inheritance.’ It portrays a collection of colourful characters who laugh at themselves in ...
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Human Rights and Displacement in Literature: The Case of M. Mwangi’s Kill Me Quick and K. Kombani’s The Last Villains of Molo 

Kula, Anna (Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, 2018-12)
This work aims to explore the relationship between literature and human rights with a hypothesis that literature is a vehicle for enhancing human rights through its condemnation of violations, and thus, the focus is on ...

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AuthorAdansi, Joana Emefa (1)Duhoe, Alberta Aseye Ama (1)Karumba, Julia Njeri (1)Kula, Anna (1)Maina, Oscar Macharia (1)Mbith, Esther K. (1)Mbithi, Esther K . (1)Mwai, W. (1)Subject
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