... PROPER’ WOMAN: SAFE SEX, RISK AND GENDER IN MEJA MWANGI'S THE LAST PLAGUE. English Studies in Africa: ...
Tópico(s): Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
2002 - Taylor & Francis | English Studies in Africa
... Through examination of the fiction of John Kiriamiti, Meja Mwangi and John Kigia, the paper postulates that the ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2007 - Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association | Tydskrif vir letterkunde
Tópico(s): American and British Literature Analysis
2004 - | Nordic journal of African studies
... Kenyan novels. Specifically, three urban novels written by Meja Mwangi are used. Based on a qualitative survey of ...
Tópico(s): Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
2009 - National Council for Geographic Education | Journal of Geography
The study examined elements of hybridity in Meja Mwangi’s Little White Man, a text set in colonial Kenya. In particular, the study was interested in the writer’s juxtaposition of the ...
Tópico(s): Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
2013 - Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research | Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
Tópico(s): Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
1975 - University of Oklahoma | Books Abroad
... Kenyan authors – among them Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Meja Mwangi, David Maillu and John Kiriamiti – to present and ...
Tópico(s): Comics and Graphic Narratives
2016 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of African Cultural Studies
... as Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Meja Mwangi, Ousmane Sembene, and Mongo Beti. Chidi Maduka has ...
Tópico(s): Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
1991 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Modern fiction studies
... the selected novels of Kenya’s popular novelist, Meja Mwangi. To this end, Meja Mwangi’s popular fiction, Kill Me Quick (1973), Going ... fiction, with a special focus on novels by Meja Mwangi. The study further focused on Mwangi’s novels ...
Tópico(s): Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
2022 - | International Journal of Scientific Research and Management (IJSRM)
Setting is perhaps the highest priority in Meja Mwangi‟s literary rigours. Effectiveness of his setting reveals meaning and determines actions, aspirations, and destinies of the characters in specific time and place. ...
Tópico(s): Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
2021 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... melancholia, as defined by Freud, which appear in Meja Mwangi's Carcase for Hounds, a fictional history of ...
Tópico(s): South African History and Culture
2011 - Taylor & Francis | Women s Studies
... na ficção africana contemporânea. Um dos romances de Meja Mwangi, kill me quick, que trata a desilusão pós- ...
Tópico(s): African history and culture studies
2009 - UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO | África
... depiction of neocolonial woes in the contemporaryAfrican novel. Meja Mwangi's Striving for the Wind is used as ...
Tópico(s): Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
2004 - eScholarship Publishing, University of California | Ufahamu A Journal of African Studies
Tópico(s): African history and culture studies
1991 - Routledge | World Literature Written in English
Reviewed by: The Mzungu Boy Karen Coats Mwangi, Meja The Mzungu Boy. House of Anansi/Groundwood, 2005150p Trade ed. ISBN 0-88899-653-5$15.95 Paper ed. ISBN 0-88899-664- ...
Tópico(s): African history and culture analysis
2005 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
The purpose of criticism is to display as accurately as possible the genuine quality of a work of art. So the sole aim of this paper is to illuminate the choice of Mwangi‘s characters which will be most helpful in bringing out genuine quality of his works under study. The study examines one of Mwangi‘s manipulation of fictional technique: character and characterization to reveal his aesthetic vision. To display this genuine quality, the paper engages in description, analysis and evaluation of Mwangi‘ ...
Tópico(s): Asian Culture and Media Studies
2021 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
This essay is poised to examine Mwangi’s manipulation of one of the salient fictional techniques which is sometimes neglected. Point-of-view is perhaps one of the vital methods of achieving aesthetic vision. This practical technique in fiction is surveyed to prove its relationship in revealing intentional meaning. By uncovering the differences in the study of African novels, this discourse chooses to toe the steps of formalism as the best approach to the study of African novels especially Mwangi’ ...
Tópico(s): Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
2021 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... s The Story of an African Chief (1935), Meja Mwangi’s Going Down River Road (1976), and Binyavanga ...
Tópico(s): South African History and Culture
2017 - SAGE Publishing | The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
... writers such as Asenath Bole Odaga, ‘Remi Adedeji, Meja Mwangi, Teresa E. Meniru, Ben Okri, Kola Onadipe, Ifeoma ... such as Musa Nagenda’s Dogs of Fear, Meja Mwangi’s Jimi the Dog and Kill Me Quick, ...
Tópico(s): Educational Methods and Media Use
1998 - Johns Hopkins University Press | The Lion and the unicorn
... Charles Mangua and Mwangi Ruheni, Smith turns to Meja Mwangi's 1974 novel of Kenya's "Emergency" period, ...
Tópico(s): Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
1992 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Modern fiction studies
In a yet-unpublished interview the Kenyan novelist Meja Mwangi deplores the Big Man syndrome as an unjust ...
Tópico(s): African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
2018 - Indiana University Press | Research in African Literatures
... well as Palestinian author Ibitsam Barakat, Kenyan writer Meja Mwangi, and others. Readers are largely left to create ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
2010 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
James Odero, Yoshinori NATSUME, Shigeru WAKAYAMA,
... Kenyan urban literature by a renowned Kenyan writer, Meja Mwangi, where the slum areas in Nairobi play the ...
Tópico(s): Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
2009 - Architectural Institute of Japan | Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ)
... there are omissions. There is no entry on Meja Mwangi, but his work is described, which means he ...
Tópico(s): Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
2008 - Indiana University Press | Research in African Literatures
... as Cyprien Ekwansi's Jagua Nana (1961) and Meja Mwangi's Kill Me Quick (1975) to recent novels ...
2007 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Callaloo
Neloufer de Mel, Rosemary Lucas, Gina Wisker, Bridget Jones, Anthony Ilona, Thorunn Lonsdale, Charles Sarvan, Marjory Caine, Nana Grey‐Johnson, Debjani Chatterjee, Hena Maes‐Jelinek, Jogamaya Bayer, Julie Minkler, Karen King‐Aribisala, Helen Donlon, Kristina Masuwa, Lawrence T. Scott, Nigel Rigby, David Turley,
... 1992, hb. £18.95) STRIVING FOR THE WIND. Meja Mwangi, (Heinemann, 1992, pb. £5.99). NIIWAM AND TAAW. ...
1993 - Taylor & Francis | Wasafiri