Narrative Identity And Ethics In Postcolonial Kenya
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Narrative Identity and Ethics in Postcolonial Kenya
Author | : Eleanor Tiplady Higgs |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Religious institutions |
ISBN | : 1350129836 |
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"Can a Christian organisation with colonial roots work towards reproductive justice for Kenyan women and resist sexist interpretations of Christianity? How does a women's organisation in Africa navigate controversial ethical dilemmas, at the same time as dealing with the pressures of imperialism in international development? Based on a case study of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Kenya, and also referring to research collected on the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians ('the Circle'), this interdisciplinary exploration of ethics, religion and gender offers answers to these questions. It also introduces a theoretical framework drawn from postcolonial feminist critique, narrative identity theory and African theology -'ordinary theological ethics'-and explores its implications as a cross-disciplinary theme in feminist studies of religion and theology. Eleanor Higgs argues that Kenya YWCA's narratives of its Christian history and constitution sustain a link between its ethical perspective and its identity. The ethical insights that emerge from these practices proclaim the relevance of the value of 'fulfilled lives', as prescribed in the New Testament, for Christian women's experiences of reproductive injustice. "--
Narrative Identity and Ethics in Postcolonial Kenya
Author | : Eleanor Tiplady Higgs |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2021-06-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781350129818 |
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Can a Christian organization with colonial roots work towards reproductive justice for Kenyan women and resist sexist interpretations of Christianity? How does a women's organization in Africa navigate controversial ethical dilemmas, while dealing with the pressures of imperialism in international development? Based on a case study of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Kenya, this book explores the answers to these questions. It also introduces a theoretical framework drawn from postcolonial feminist critique, narrative identity theory and the work of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians: 'everyday Christian ethics'. The book evaluates the theory's implications as a cross-disciplinary theme in feminist studies of religion and theology. Eleanor Tiplady Higgs argues that Kenya YWCA's narratives of its Christian history and constitution sustain a link between its ethical perspective and its identity. The ethical insights that emerge from these practices proclaim the relevance of the value of 'fulfilled lives', as prescribed in the New Testament, for Christian women's experiences of reproductive injustice.
Ngugi wa Thiong o Gender and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading
Author | : Brendon Nicholls |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2016-05-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317087571 |
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This is the first comprehensive book-length study of gender politics in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction. Brendon Nicholls argues that mechanisms of gender subordination are strategically crucial to Ngugi's ideological project from his first novel to his most recent one. Nicholls describes the historical pressures that lead Ngugi to represent women as he does, and shows that the novels themselves are symptomatic of the cultural conditions that they address. Reading Ngugi's fiction in terms of its Gikuyu allusions and references, a gendered narrative of history emerges that creates transgressive spaces for women. Nicholls bases his discussion on moments during the Mau Mau rebellion when women's contributions to the anticolonial struggle could not be reduced to a patriarchal narrative of Kenyan history, and this interpretive maneuver permits a reading of Ngugi's fiction that accommodates female political and sexual agency. Nicholls contributes to postcolonial theory by proposing a methodology for reading cultural difference. This methodology critiques cultural practices like clitoridectomy in an ethical manner that seeks to avoid both cultural imperialism and cultural relativisim. His strategy of 'performative reading,' that is, making the conditions of one text (such as folklore, history, or translation) active in another (for example, fiction, literary narrative, or nationalism), makes possible an ethical reading of gender and of the conditions of reading in translation.
Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing
Author | : Donna McCormack |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 9 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Postcolonialism in literature |
ISBN | : 1472543793 |
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Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres
Author | : Walter Goebel,Saskia Schabio |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2013-01-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781135936372 |
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This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to concerns of literary form and aesthetics, this book gives premium to the literary, aiming to delineate the evolution of specific narrative techniques as part of an emerging postcolonial aesthetics. Essays delineate elements of an emergent postcolonial narratology across a variety of seminal generic forms, such as the epic, the novel, the short story, the autobiography, and the folk tale, focusing on genre as a powerful tool for the historicizing of literature and orature within cultural discourses. Investigating the heuristic value of concepts such as mimicry, writing back, translation, negotiation, or subversion, the book considers the value of explanatory paradigms for postcolonial generic models. It also explores the status of postcolonial comparative aesthetics versus globalization studies and liberal concepts of the transnational, taking issue with the prominence of Western concepts of identity in discussions of postcolonial literature and the favoring of mimetic forms. This volume offers a unique contribution to the study of narrative genre in postcolonial literatures and provides valuable insight into the field of postcolonial studies on the whole.
Fictions of Identity and Authority in Postcolonial Kenyan Women s Literature
Author | : Marie Krüger |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : WISC:89078142106 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Narrative
Author | : David Herman |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 2007-07-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521856966 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction, to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character, dialogue, genre or language, shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example, and indicates directions for further research. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative, a glossary of key terms and a comprehensive index, this is an essential resource for both students and scholars in many fields, including language and literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, jurisprudence, communication and media studies, and the social sciences.
MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
Author | : Modern Language Association of America |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 3176 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Languages, Modern |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105026449327 |
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Vols. for 1969- include ACTFL annual bibliography of books and articles on pedagogy in foreign languages 1969-