The Nairobi Castaways: Novelistic Representations of Slum Dwellers

This article is a critique of Nairobi city’s socio-political histories as portrayed in Kenyan literary works of the 1970s, focusing on Mwangi Gicheru’s Across the Bridge (1979), Charles Mangua’s Son of Woman (1971), Meja Mwangi’s Going Down River Road (1976) and The Cockroach Dance (1979). The artic...

Descrizione completa

Dettagli Bibliografici

Autore principale:	Yenjela, Wafula
Natura:	Artigo
Lingua:	Inglês
Pubblicazione:	IFRA - Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique 2023
Soggetti:	Kenyan urban novels Nairobi castaways slum demolitions informal sector social histories capitalism
Accesso online:	https://doi.org/10.4000/eastafrica.4286 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/fdx6 https://journals.openedition.org/eastafrica/4286
Tags:	Aggiungi Tag Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!