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Urban legends, colonial myths : (Record no. 109569)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2006028423
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 1592214983 (hardcover)
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International Standard Book Number 1592214991 (pbk.)
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Classification number PR9340.5
Item number .U73 2006
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Urban legends, colonial myths :
Remainder of title popular culture and literature in East Africa /
Statement of responsibility, etc edited by James Ogude & Joyce Nyairo.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Trenton, NJ :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Africa World Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2006.
263 ## - PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE
Projected publication date 0611
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent p. cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note East African popular culture : an introduction / James Ogude & Joyce Nyairo -- "Kaa masaa, grapple with spiders" : the myriad threads of Nairobi matatu discourse / Mbugua Wa Mungai -- "We seek it here, we seek it there - that damn'd elusive nandi bear" / Elsie Cloete -- "Christening fiction" : sermonising "the popular" in Whispers / George Ogola -- Democrazy : laughter in Gado's editorial cartoons (1992-1999) / Grace A. Musila -- "Modify" : Jua Kali as a metaphor for Africa's urban ethnicities and cultures / Joyce Nyairo -- From the "English country garden" to "Makambo mibale" : popular culture in Kenya in the mid nineteen sixties / E.S. Atieno Odhiambo -- "The cat that ended up eating the homestead chicken" : murder, memory and fabulization in D.O. Misiani's Dissident music / James Ogude -- Popular culture in East African literature / Chris Wanjala -- Alternative moral economies, crime and violence in Kenyan popular fiction / Tom Odhiambo -- Romance, (in)visibility and agency in Grace Ogot's The strange bride and "The white veil" / Sophie Macharia -- "Chira" and HIV/AIDS : the (re)construction of sexual moralities in Kenyan popular fiction / Agnes Muriungi.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element East African literature (English)
General subdivision History and criticism.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element East African literature
General subdivision History and criticism.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Literature and society
Geographic subdivision Africa, East.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Popular culture
Geographic subdivision Africa, East.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Africa, East
General subdivision In literature.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Africa, East
General subdivision Intellectual life.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Ogude, James.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Nyairo, Joyce.
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Materials specified Table of contents only
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    Library of Congress Classification     TAMCAS Library MARY IMMACULATE LIBRARY TAMCAS General shelves 21/05/2010 21 9 AFCO PR 9340.5 .U73 2006 49930 29/05/2025 24/04/2025 1 21/01/2009 Book

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