• HISTORY AND VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY KENYAN FICTION: Standpoints on Yvonne Owuor's writings

HISTORY AND VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY KENYAN FICTION: Standpoints on Yvonne Owuor's writings

: Siundu (G.) ed.

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114pp., paperback, Routledge, Abingdon & New York, 2023

ISBN: 9781032408262

 

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, volume 8, issue 1-2 (2022).

A collection of essays on Kenyan writer Yvonne Owuor’s novels Dust (2014) and Dragonfly Sea (2019) and her short story, “Weight of Whispers”, which won the 2003 Caine Prize for African Writing.

Godwin Siundu is a senior lecturer at the University of Nairobi’s Department of Literature, and co-founding Editor of the journal of Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies.