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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Ideology
Literary Theory
2. ‘Mau Mau’ as a Historical Phenomenon
Problems of Definition
‘Causes’ of the Revolt
Origins and Organisation of the ‘Mau Mau’ and History of the Oath
Conduct of the Campaign: ‘Mau Mau Atrocities’ and State and Settler Repression
Social Composition of the ‘Mau Mau’ Movement
Towards a Categorical Definition of the Movement
Ideologies of the History of ‘Mau Mau’
The Colonial Interpretation and ‘Mau Mau’ Oathing Ceremonies
Post-Independence Accounts: ‘Mau Mau’ Autobiographies and ‘Progressive’and ‘Reactionary’ Nationalist Interpretations
3. Kenyan Colonial Settler Ideology
The Colonial Economy as a Determinant of Settler Ideology
Colonial Settler Ideology in its Aspect as Metropolitan Export
Colonial Settler Race Ideology: Myths and Stereotypes
Kenyan Colonial Settler Ideology as a Variant of Fascist Ideology
Terminology of Colonial Accounts of ‘Mau Mau’
4. Nothing of Value: Colonial Fiction about ‘Mau Mau’
Fiction as Propaganda and the Settler Novelists
The Embodiment in Fiction of Colonial Myths About ‘Mau Mau’
Fictional Devices Used in Propounding Colonial Settler Ideology
The Fiction’s Rendering Visible of the Ideological Structures of Colonial Fascism
5. ‘Plus ça Change …’: Liberal Fiction from the Metropolis
The Effect of Settler Propaganda on the Metropolitan Image of ‘Mau Mau’
The ‘Liberal’ Fiction
6. Economy, Politics and Ideology in Post-Independence Kenya
From Colonial to Neo-Colonial Economy
Key Components of the Dominant Ideology: ‘Unity’,the Kenyatta Myth, and the Rejection of ‘Mau Mau’
7. Novels of the ‘Freedom’
Post-Independence Fiction as Praise-Song to the ‘Leader’
Further Resemblances to the Colonial Fiction: the Aesthetics of ‘Balance’ and the Politics of Contempt
8. Not Yet the Freedom
The Changing Image of ‘Mau Mau’ in Ngugi’s Novels
A Grain of Wheat as the Exemplary ‘Crisis Text’
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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