Description: This book deconstructs Eurocentric narratives and showcases local voices to re-examine childhood in Eastern Africa. Moving away from portrayals of eastern African childhood as characterised by want, the author argues for a differentiated and pluralist nature of the eastern African childhood. Taking a chronological approach, the author provides a multidisciplinary critical reading of Africanist research on childhood in eastern Africa, drawing from anthropological and cultural studies, while examining writings from the pre-imperial and colonial periods. Moving into the contemporary period, the book reveals the continuity, tensions and ruptures of these portrayals in humanitarian, legal, and journalistic discourses, before exploring postcolonial writings on childhood in works by Eastern African novelists. Based on such a multidisciplinary perspective, this book will be of interest to scholars of African literature, eastern African history, critical childhood studies, museums and Africanist epistemologies.
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EAN: 9780367703905
UPC: 9780367703905
ISBN: 9780367703905
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Format: Paperback, 188 pages
Author: Obura, Oduor (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Book Title: Decolonising Childhoods in Eastern Africa: Literar
Item Height: 1.1 cm
Item Length: 23.4 cm
Item Weight: 0.37 kg
Item Width: 15.6 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Routledge
