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 Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 8
Foreword
Ali Jimale Ahmed 9

Introduction: Broadening Thought on Contemporary East African

Literary Criticism
/. K. S. Makokha, Egara Kabaji <&" Dominica Dipio 11

1. Body as Text: Theorizing Physiological Aesthetics in East African Literature

Jack 0. Ogembo & Christine Ombaka 27

2. Fictional Rendition of Uganda History in Goretti Kyomuhendo's Waiting (2007)

and Julius Ocwinyo's Footprints of the Outsider (2002)
Dominica Dipio 41

3. Nature, Religion and History: De/Mythologizing of the Romance of Ethiopia

in "Abbay" and Adefris
Tewodros Gebre 69

4. Code-switching in the Contemporary Kenyan Novel: After 2000

Alina Bjnkanya 85

5. Symbolism and Subversion of the Tragic Form in Rebeka Njau's

Ripples in the Pool (1975)
John Alugubi 101

6. Margaret Ogola's Place of Destiny (2005): Empowering Women through Narration

Joints Omuteche 121

7. Omniscient Narration as a Source of Meaning in Nuruddin Farah's Sardines (1981)

Charles Kesero Tunai 141

8. Imagined (Dis)locations: Poetics of Setting in the Early Fiction of M. G. Yassanji

J. K. S. Makokha ' 155

9. Towards the Collapse of Otherising Patriarchal Narratives in Elieshi Lema's

Parched Earth (2001)
Lennox Odiemo-Munara 177

10. A Feminist Stylistic Approach to the Swahili Fiction of Ben Mtobwa

Beth Miitugu 209

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11. Children Literature in Kiswahili: A Stylistic Approach
Pamela Ngugi & Wendo Nabea 223

12. Metaphor and the Economy of Hope in Jared Angka's

Lament of the Silent & Other Poems (2004)
Godwin Siundu 245

13. Kenyan Tunes of Change: Reform Discourse in Owino Misiani's

Benga Verbal Art
James Odhiambo Ogone <&]ohn Obiero Ogone 259

14. "Pakruok": Gendered Style and Sexual Discourse in Dholuo

Nyatiti Verbal Art
Daniel OchiengOrwenjo 275

15. Women's Bodies, Men's Tongues: Masculinity, Femininity and Style

in Borana Oral Poems
Fugkh Wako 295

16. "Chewing Words Until They Are Soft": Narrating Memory, Masculinities
and Oral History in Bukusu After-Burial Verbal Art
Chris Wasike 317

17. Composition, Performance and Internalization of the Gender Ideology

in Maragoli Folktale
Egara Kaba/i 331

18. Stylistic Analysis of the Digo Women Verbal Art: The Example of
Ngodya Dance Songs
Sheila Ryanga 347

19. Changing Face(s) of the Extended Metaphorical Frame of Taarab Lyrics

Issa Y. Mwam^andi 369

20. The Feminist Voice in Kaóni Mwachofi's Mama Ee (1987): A Critical Analysis
Clara Momanyi 387

21. Imagery as a Pervasive Feature of Style: The Case of Ebrahim Hussein's

Mashetam{W7\)
James Ogola Onyango 399

22. A Comparative Study of Plays on AIDS from Tanzania and USA

Alan K. Mutembei 415
23. From Cathartic Function to Confronting Stigma: Theorizing the
Conscietization Efficacy of Theatre-Against-AIDS Interventions in Kenya
Mahiri Manta 435

24. Style and Childcenteredness in Five Kenyan Plays

Emmanuel Shikuku Tsikhungu 469

25. Opposing Influences of Tradition and Modernity in Somali Drama

Maxamed DaahirAfrax 493

Contributors 508

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