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- Colonial Inscriptions: Race, Sex, and Class in Kenya
- Book
- 1995
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
summary
In Kenyan colonialist imagery, the Kikuyu were vilified as deceitful servants while the Maasai were romanticized as noble savages in a fashion similar to American representation of the Black slave and the "wild" Indian. Carolyn Martin Shaw examines this imagery in the works of historians and ethnographers, as well as in novels and films.
Through the works of Louis Leakey, Jomo Kenyatta, Elspeth Huxley, and Isak Dinesen, along with her own ethnographic research, Martin Shaw investigates the discourses that shaped inequalities, rivalries, and fantasies in colonial Kenya. She explores narratives of domination and subordination, arguing that Europeans brought to Africa long-established ideas of difference that influenced racial inequalities in the colonial situation.
Including discussion of the controversial practice of female genital mutilation, Colonial Inscriptions presents an African American woman's views of how images of African colonialism have been influenced by European and American racism and sexual fantasies.
Through the works of Louis Leakey, Jomo Kenyatta, Elspeth Huxley, and Isak Dinesen, along with her own ethnographic research, Martin Shaw investigates the discourses that shaped inequalities, rivalries, and fantasies in colonial Kenya. She explores narratives of domination and subordination, arguing that Europeans brought to Africa long-established ideas of difference that influenced racial inequalities in the colonial situation.
Including discussion of the controversial practice of female genital mutilation, Colonial Inscriptions presents an African American woman's views of how images of African colonialism have been influenced by European and American racism and sexual fantasies.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-ix
- Chapter 4. Louis Leakey and the Kikuyu
- pp. 95-117
- Chapter 6. Mau Mau Discourses
- pp. 149-178
- Bibliography
- pp. 225-242
- About the Author
- p. 251
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816686179
Related ISBN(s)
9780816625253
MARC Record
OCLC
567981376
Pages
264
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No