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   The Illusion of Truth in Three Kenyan Crime Novels

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Larry Ndivo --- Department of Linguistics & Languages, Kenya

   Focusing on crime autobiography in Kenya, this article reads John Kiriamiti’s three novels, My Life in Crime (1984), My Life with a Criminal: Milly’s Story (1989) and My Life in Prison (2004) to argue that although the writer adopts confession...

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   Gathering the Dust: Narrating National Hauntologies and Futures in Yvonne Adhiambo Owour’s Dust

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Felix Mutunga Ndaka --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa

   This paper offers a reading of Yvonne Owour’s Dust as a text that engages with national histories in a bid to trouble official Kenyan public memories and re-imagine Kenyan visions of the future. In this article, I argue that the...

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