Women’s Literature in Kenya and Uganda : The Trouble with Modernity

For nearly a decade, writers’ collectives such as Kwani Trust in Kenya and Femrite , the Ugandan women writers’ association, have dramatically reshaped the East African literary scene. Women’s Literature in Kenya and Uganda: The Trouble with Modernity extends the purview of postcolonial literary studies by providing the long overdue critical inquiry that these writers so urgently deserve . Marie Kruger demonstrates that the writers’ simultaneous interest in gender dynamics within local communities and in social exchanges between two neighboring East African nations allows for a unique examination of the relationship between modernity, gender, and the complex cultural and political networks of the region. For nearly a decade, writers' collectives such as Kwani Trust in Kenya and Femrite , the Ugandan women writers' association, have dramatically reshaped the East African literary scene. This text extends the purview of postcolonial literary studies by providing the long overdue critical inquiry that these writers so urgently deserve. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction: Kenyan and Ugandan (Women’s) Literature....Pages 1-20 Promise and Fraud....Pages 21-49 Historical Modernities....Pages 51-100 The Dark Sides of Modernity....Pages 101-147 Mapping Global Modernities....Pages 149-195 In Lieu of a Conclusion....Pages 197-211 Back Matter....Pages 213-262 Kenyan and Ugandan (women's) literature: the trouble with modernity Promise and fraud Historical modernities The dark sides of modernity Mapping global modernities "The state of tides" and the ethics of responsibility.