Description: Contents:Africa and political incarceration --Human rights and narratives of incarceration in the colonial Kenya --Political incarceration and the postcolonial period in Kenya --Chapter 1: A tale of two prison tales --Who are the Babukusu? --The Sela and Mwambu tale and incarceration --Power dynamics and belly politics --Gender prison and gender politics --Songs as subversion --The Waswahili people --The Liyongo epic as a prison narrative --The question of gender --The I-pronoun, truth, and trauma --Chapter 2: Articulating human rights violations in the pioneer prison memoir --A martyr in the making --The narrative imperative --Torture as human rights violation --The 'I' and the 'we' --Truth claims --Issues of style --Chapter 3: The tenor and genre of Ngugi's prison narrative --Narrator as harbinger of truth --Torture and trauma --Political manifesto and art manifesto --Foreshortened history of oppression --List of grievances --Calling audience to action --Chapter 4: Doing things with words in prison poetry --The multiple is and speaking in tongues --Why write? --Swahili prosody and poetry as autobiography --Resistance and truth --Masking the message --A range of miscellaneous voices --The journey motif --Voice of the unborn --Chapter 5: The quest for the right to be human in prison poetry --Where and why? --Dissipation and disappearance of hope --The female and parental selves --Disavowal of ideology --Trauma and tragedy --Comparing Mazrui's and Abdalla's prison poetry. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers. To get started finding Narrating Prison Experience: Human Rights, Self, Society, and Political Incarceration in Africa, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.