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Silence as a strategy for trauma enunciation in selected fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah: Paradise (1994) and Desertion (2005)
(Kenyatta University, 2017-11)The study offers a reading on how silence has been presented as a strategy for trauma enunciation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s selected novels: Paradise (1994) and Desertion (2005). It also explores how migration and racial ... -
Historical consciousness and character formation in Yvonne Owuor’s dust
(Kenyatta University, 2017-04)This study investigates the role played by historical consciousness in character formation and identity as presented by Yvonne Owuor in Dust. The desire for an individual to identify with a certain group of people whether ... -
Zakes mda’s social vision for post-apartheid South Africa: an examination of fools, bells and the habit of eating.
(2017-07)This thesis seeks to establish how Zakes Mda crafts his social vision for post-apartheid South Africa through his three plays: The Mother of All Eating, You Fool How Can the Sky Fall? and The Bells of Amersfoort collected ... -
Templates of Wanga Socio-Cultural Family Values in Thematic and Stylistic Analysis of Ali Akeko’s Selected Popular Songs
(Kenyatta University, 2017-03)This study regards Ali Akeko as a producer of cultural „goods‟ whose taste and appropriation are realized in consumption. For a detailed analysis, the study used eighteen songs. The study investigated Wanga socio-cultural ... -
The use of myth in grace Ogot's prose fiction
(2009-04)This study investigates the use of myth in Grace Ogot's prose fiction. It highlights tbe importance of myth as a vital artistic resource to the contemporary writer, the relevance of myth in articulating contemporary ... -
Allegory of derangement in postcolonial fiction: a study of selected novels from Africa
(Kenyatta University, 2017-01)This study, „Allegory of Derangement in Postcolonial Fiction: A Study of Selected Novels from Africa‟ is based on analysis of four texts namely: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah, The Cockroach Dance ... -
The Aesthetics of Discontent and Dissidence in Lesego Rampolokeng’s Blackheart: Epilogue to Insanity (2004) And Whiteheart: Prologue to Hysteria (2005)
(2016-11)This study examines the motifs of discontent and dissidence in the two novels by the South African poet, playwright and novelist Lesego Rampolokeng. The study is based on the premise that black South African writers use ... -
Postcolonial migration and strategies of resistance in Safi Abdi's a mighty collision of two worlds and offspring of paradise
(Kenyatta University, 2016-04)The focus of this project is the examination of identity politics and acts of resistance staged by migrant characters living overseas as represented in San Abdi's Offspring of Paradise (2004) and :1 Alight)' Collision ... -
Representation of Ecological Consciousness in Henry Ole Kulet’s Vanishing Herds and The Hunter
(Kenyatta University, 2016-04)This study endeavours to bring a fresh insight into the role of literature in the global campaign against environmental degradation. It examines how human culture impacts the natural environment in Henry Ole Kulet’s ... -
On Legitimizing Hegemonic Masculinities: A Critical Examination of Gendered Abagusii Proverbs
(Kenyatta University, 2015-11)This research work entailed a literary study of proverbs as a gendered genre in Abagusii society, The study aimed to investigate how Abagusii community, one of the several ethnic communities in Kenya, uses some of their ... -
Meaning Loss in the Translated Kimeru Proverbs and Idiomatic Expressions
(Kenyatta University, 2015)The main objective of this study was to investigate meaning loss in the use of figurative language as a result of translation of Kimeru proverbs and idiomatic expressions into English. This study had three objectives: the ... -
Functional Values and Aspects of Style in Selected Rwandese Insigamigani Texts
(Kenyatta University, 2015-08)This study analyses key literary and social values in Rwandese literary Metagenres known as Insigamigani. Insigamigani means proverb subjects or subjects that have generated proverbs. The study analysed the social values ... -
Representations of the Postcolonial State in the Childhood Metaphor in Selected Postcolonial Texts
(2015)Chapter One, titled On the Background, tracks the origins of the pathway of this study. In so doing, it provides a response to the first research objective and question on how childhood is an analytic concept in Beneath ... -
The Aesthetics of Semantic Incongruities and Lexical Deviations in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Murogi wa Kagogo
(Kenyatta University, 2015)The study focused on aesthetics of semantic incongruities and lexical deviations in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s text Mũrogi wa Kagogo. The study is premised on the knowledge that style is a vital element especially for the purpose ... -
Towards a Poetics of Tony Mochama's 'Spoken Word' Poetry: A Study of what if i am a Literary Gangster
(Kenyatta University, 2015-03-10)Tony Mochama's poetry, unlike other 'spoken word' poetry in Kenya, has attracted huge and widely divergent critical responses. While many literary critics and scholars have dismissed it, often labeling it 'pseudo/quasi' ...
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Silence as a strategy for trauma enunciation in selected fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah: Paradise (1994) and Desertion (2005)
(Kenyatta University, 2017-11)The study offers a reading on how silence has been presented as a strategy for trauma enunciation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s selected novels: Paradise (1994) and Desertion (2005). It also explores how migration and racial ... -
Historical consciousness and character formation in Yvonne Owuor’s dust
(Kenyatta University, 2017-04)This study investigates the role played by historical consciousness in character formation and identity as presented by Yvonne Owuor in Dust. The desire for an individual to identify with a certain group of people whether ... -
Zakes mda’s social vision for post-apartheid South Africa: an examination of fools, bells and the habit of eating.
(2017-07)This thesis seeks to establish how Zakes Mda crafts his social vision for post-apartheid South Africa through his three plays: The Mother of All Eating, You Fool How Can the Sky Fall? and The Bells of Amersfoort collected ... -
Templates of Wanga Socio-Cultural Family Values in Thematic and Stylistic Analysis of Ali Akeko’s Selected Popular Songs
(Kenyatta University, 2017-03)This study regards Ali Akeko as a producer of cultural „goods‟ whose taste and appropriation are realized in consumption. For a detailed analysis, the study used eighteen songs. The study investigated Wanga socio-cultural ... -
The use of myth in grace Ogot's prose fiction
(2009-04)This study investigates the use of myth in Grace Ogot's prose fiction. It highlights tbe importance of myth as a vital artistic resource to the contemporary writer, the relevance of myth in articulating contemporary ... -
Allegory of derangement in postcolonial fiction: a study of selected novels from Africa
(Kenyatta University, 2017-01)This study, „Allegory of Derangement in Postcolonial Fiction: A Study of Selected Novels from Africa‟ is based on analysis of four texts namely: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah, The Cockroach Dance ... -
The Aesthetics of Discontent and Dissidence in Lesego Rampolokeng’s Blackheart: Epilogue to Insanity (2004) And Whiteheart: Prologue to Hysteria (2005)
(2016-11)This study examines the motifs of discontent and dissidence in the two novels by the South African poet, playwright and novelist Lesego Rampolokeng. The study is based on the premise that black South African writers use ... -
Postcolonial migration and strategies of resistance in Safi Abdi's a mighty collision of two worlds and offspring of paradise
(Kenyatta University, 2016-04)The focus of this project is the examination of identity politics and acts of resistance staged by migrant characters living overseas as represented in San Abdi's Offspring of Paradise (2004) and :1 Alight)' Collision ... -
Representation of Ecological Consciousness in Henry Ole Kulet’s Vanishing Herds and The Hunter
(Kenyatta University, 2016-04)This study endeavours to bring a fresh insight into the role of literature in the global campaign against environmental degradation. It examines how human culture impacts the natural environment in Henry Ole Kulet’s ... -
On Legitimizing Hegemonic Masculinities: A Critical Examination of Gendered Abagusii Proverbs
(Kenyatta University, 2015-11)This research work entailed a literary study of proverbs as a gendered genre in Abagusii society, The study aimed to investigate how Abagusii community, one of the several ethnic communities in Kenya, uses some of their ... -
Meaning Loss in the Translated Kimeru Proverbs and Idiomatic Expressions
(Kenyatta University, 2015)The main objective of this study was to investigate meaning loss in the use of figurative language as a result of translation of Kimeru proverbs and idiomatic expressions into English. This study had three objectives: the ... -
Functional Values and Aspects of Style in Selected Rwandese Insigamigani Texts
(Kenyatta University, 2015-08)This study analyses key literary and social values in Rwandese literary Metagenres known as Insigamigani. Insigamigani means proverb subjects or subjects that have generated proverbs. The study analysed the social values ... -
Representations of the Postcolonial State in the Childhood Metaphor in Selected Postcolonial Texts
(2015)Chapter One, titled On the Background, tracks the origins of the pathway of this study. In so doing, it provides a response to the first research objective and question on how childhood is an analytic concept in Beneath ... -
The Aesthetics of Semantic Incongruities and Lexical Deviations in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Murogi wa Kagogo
(Kenyatta University, 2015)The study focused on aesthetics of semantic incongruities and lexical deviations in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s text Mũrogi wa Kagogo. The study is premised on the knowledge that style is a vital element especially for the purpose ... -
Towards a Poetics of Tony Mochama's 'Spoken Word' Poetry: A Study of what if i am a Literary Gangster
(Kenyatta University, 2015-03-10)Tony Mochama's poetry, unlike other 'spoken word' poetry in Kenya, has attracted huge and widely divergent critical responses. While many literary critics and scholars have dismissed it, often labeling it 'pseudo/quasi' ... -
Aspects of alienation in "The price of living(1983)" "Water Under the Bridge(1991)" and "Eve of the Storm(2010)" by Yusuf K. Dawood
(Kenyatta University, 2014)This study focuses on three of the novels by Yusuf Kudwavala Dawood: The Price of Living (1983), Water under the Bridge (1991) and Eye of the Storm (2010). The texts address issues in different historical, social and ... -
Misogyny in urban fiction: a study of selected texts by Meja Mwangi
(2014)The study is an investigation of the theme of misogyny as propagated by the urban underclass represented in the urban fiction of Meja Mwangi. The study argues that over the years, literary critics have unjustly classified ... -
The Nneka principle in the fiction of Chinua Achebe: A study of the mother archetype in his selected novels
(2014-09-04)This study is a gender appraisal that employs the nneka principle to explore literary creation of mother archetype with focus on one of the world's renowned prolific writers and literary critics of African origin: Chinua ...
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