Decolonising Childhoods in Eastern Africa

Decolonising Childhoods in Eastern Africa
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 9781000408003
ISBN-13 : 1000408000
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Book Synopsis Decolonising Childhoods in Eastern Africa by : Oduor Obura

Download or read book Decolonising Childhoods in Eastern Africa written by Oduor Obura and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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