Urban legends, colonial myths : popular culture and literature in East Africa - Ogude, James; Nyairo, Joyce (Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 2006)
East African popular culture : an introduction / James Ogude & Joyce Nyairo -- "Kaa masaa, grapple with spiders" : the myriad threads of Na irobi matatu discourse / Mbugua Wa Mungai -- "We seek it here, we seek it there - that damn'd elusive nandi bear" / Elsie Cloete -- "Christeni ng fiction" : sermonising "the popular" in Whispers / George Ogola -- D emocrazy : laughter in Gado's editorial cartoons (1992-1999) / Grace A. Musila -- "Modify" : Jua Kali as a metaphor for Africa's urban ethnici ties and cultures / Joyce Nyairo -- From the "English country garden" t o "Makambo mibale" : popular culture in Kenya in the mid nineteen sixti es / E.S. Atieno Odhiambo -- "The cat that ended up eating the homestea d chicken" : murder, memory and fabulization in D.O. Misiani's Dissiden t music / James Ogude -- Popular culture in East African literature / C hris Wanjala -- Alternative moral economies, crime and violence in Keny an popular fiction / Tom Odhiambo -- Romance, (in)visibility and agency in Grace Ogot's The strange bride and "The white veil" / Sophie Machar ia -- "Chira" and HIV/AIDS : the (re)construction of sexual moralities in Kenyan popular fiction / Agnes Muriungi.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: East African literature (English) -- History and criticism; East African literature -- History and criticism; Africa, East -- In literature