Ken Junior Lipenga
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 74958 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ken Junior Lipenga |
| NOMBRES | Ken Junior |
| APELLIDO | Lipenga |
| FIRMA | LIPENGA K J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Malawi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8592-8999 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Imagining the Malawian urban space in Lawrence Kadzitche’s Katakwe Kutauni
There is a growing trend in African literature to examine the works of literature as windows into contemporary city life, where the city ceases to be a mere background, but is imagined as an organic reality that gives life to, and is sustained by, the denizens living in it. Many cities have become the focus of such studies. In this article, the city in focus is Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, imagined in James Kadzitche’s Chichewa language novel…
Maybe We Carry Our Mothers’ Traumas in Our Bones”
The Prophet in Music
Music plays various roles in contemporary Africa. This paper examines a specific role — how songs contribute to the public image of a specific personality, Prophet Shepherd Bushiri. The paper argues that the image that people have come to know about the South Africa based prophet is reflected in the music that is created around him as a religious celebrity engaged in preaching the prosperity gospel. Structurally, the argument illustrates how the …
African poetry and the intellectual
In The Wretched of the Earth (1963), Frantz Fanon holds an optimistic view of the intellectual in the colony, as one who plays a key role in confronting the colonial administrators and addressing them on level intellectual turf. Long after African countries have gained independence, university campuses continue to sprout and grow on the continent. The intellectual finds their position changed. Now, intellectuals are under scrutiny more than ever,…
The Madando Rhetoric
‘Madando’ is a term that anyone who voted in the 2019 tripartite elections in Malawi should be familiar with, mainly due to the one person who has since become associated with the use of the term. It is a term that calls to mind the mismanagement of the elections and the subsequent successful challenge mounted by opposition parties. Crucially, songs on the fraudulent elections have been produced in the country, offering rich creative critiques of…
Reading Precarity, Disability and Narrative Agency in Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel and Measuring Time
(2020). Reading Precarity, Disability and Narrative Agency in Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel and Measuring Time. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 32, Precarity in South/African Texts, pp. 178-186
Lake lore
Lake Malawi, with its flora and fauna, exists as a pervasive presence in the collective creative imaginary of Malawian artists. This is evident through the presence of the lake as a feature in poetry, painting, and the novel among various genres. In this paper, the central position that is being advanced is that the lake does not only feature as an image, but also exists as a paradoxical symbolic element, where the water stands as a life-giving f…
Tales of Political Monuments in Malawi
Countries in Africa have many monuments memorialising specific figures and events in the history of their nations. Statuaries feature prominently among these monuments. This paper examines the positioning of three statues in Malawi. One of the statues is that of the first president of the country, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, another is of the third president, Bingu wa Mutharika, and the other – a statue that was never erected – that of India’s nationa…
Lunatics and Intellectuals
The Zomba Mental Hospital in Malawi has gained mythical connotations in the history of its existence, both through its association with political detention and through serving as a reminder for the sane of the precariousness of their assumption of mental well-being. Some of the discourse surrounding the institution, and indeed surrounding the question of madness, has found its way into literary works. Within African literature, a fair share of at…
Voicing marginality
The field of Disability Studies, through globally recognized, rarely takes African fiction as material for analysis. Aboulela's Lyrics Alley [(2010). London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson] offers an opportunity not only for testing the some of the key notions in the discipline, but also for exploring how the literary mode can be presented as an enabling tool for countering marginalization. Loosely based on a true story, the novel traces the life-changing…
Weaving a path from the past
Two decades after the end of apartheid, many continue to see this period as having been anti-climactic, particularly with the continuing economic disparities that currently characterise the ‘rainbow nation’. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was one of the main strategies instituted by the democratically elected government as a way of fostering the smooth transition into this new dispensation. The TRC enabled public recognition of the…
Disability and masculinity in South African autosomatography
This article examines the representation of disability by disabled black South African men as portrayed in two texts from the autosomatography genre, which encompasses first-person narratives of illness and disability. Drawing on extracts from Musa E. Zulu's The language of me and William Zulu's Spring will come , the article argues that physical disability affects heteronormative concepts of masculinity by altering the body, which is the primary…
Sex Outlaws
This paper examines Malawian writer Stanley Kenani’s ‘Love on Trial’ and Ugandan writer Monica Arac de Nyeko’s ‘Jambula Tree’ as entries in a growing field of literature that attempts to define a restorative queer aesthetic. Employing Bakhtin’s notion of heteroglossia, the examination aims at unravelling multiple narrative voices regarding homosexuality within the narratives. The discussion illustrates how the authors simultaneously highlight the…
Lake lore
Lake Malawi, with its flora and fauna, exists as a pervasive presence in the collective creative imaginary of Malawian artists. This is evident through the presence of the lake as a feature in poetry, painting, and the novel among various genres. In this paper, the central position that is being advanced is that the lake does not only feature as an image, but also exists as a paradoxical symbolic element, where the water stands as a life-giving f…
Maybe We Carry Our Mothers’ Traumas in Our Bones”
The Madando Rhetoric
‘Madando’ is a term that anyone who voted in the 2019 tripartite elections in Malawi should be familiar with, mainly due to the one person who has since become associated with the use of the term. It is a term that calls to mind the mismanagement of the elections and the subsequent successful challenge mounted by opposition parties. Crucially, songs on the fraudulent elections have been produced in the country, offering rich creative critiques of…
Weaving a path from the past
Two decades after the end of apartheid, many continue to see this period as having been anti-climactic, particularly with the continuing economic disparities that currently characterise the ‘rainbow nation’. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was one of the main strategies instituted by the democratically elected government as a way of fostering the smooth transition into this new dispensation. The TRC enabled public recognition of the…
Sex Outlaws
This paper examines Malawian writer Stanley Kenani’s ‘Love on Trial’ and Ugandan writer Monica Arac de Nyeko’s ‘Jambula Tree’ as entries in a growing field of literature that attempts to define a restorative queer aesthetic. Employing Bakhtin’s notion of heteroglossia, the examination aims at unravelling multiple narrative voices regarding homosexuality within the narratives. The discussion illustrates how the authors simultaneously highlight the…
Disability and masculinity in South African autosomatography
This article examines the representation of disability by disabled black South African men as portrayed in two texts from the autosomatography genre, which encompasses first-person narratives of illness and disability. Drawing on extracts from Musa E. Zulu's The language of me and William Zulu's Spring will come , the article argues that physical disability affects heteronormative concepts of masculinity by altering the body, which is the primary…
Sex Outlaws
This paper examines Malawian writer Stanley Kenani’s ‘Love on Trial’ and Ugandan writer Monica Arac de Nyeko’s ‘Jambula Tree’ as entries in a growing field of literature that attempts to define a restorative queer aesthetic. Employing Bakhtin’s notion of heteroglossia, the examination aims at unravelling multiple narrative voices regarding homosexuality within the narratives. The discussion illustrates how the authors simultaneously highlight the…
Weaving a path from the past
Two decades after the end of apartheid, many continue to see this period as having been anti-climactic, particularly with the continuing economic disparities that currently characterise the ‘rainbow nation’. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was one of the main strategies instituted by the democratically elected government as a way of fostering the smooth transition into this new dispensation. The TRC enabled public recognition of the…
Voicing marginality
The field of Disability Studies, through globally recognized, rarely takes African fiction as material for analysis. Aboulela's Lyrics Alley [(2010). London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson] offers an opportunity not only for testing the some of the key notions in the discipline, but also for exploring how the literary mode can be presented as an enabling tool for countering marginalization. Loosely based on a true story, the novel traces the life-changing…
Tales of Political Monuments in Malawi
Countries in Africa have many monuments memorialising specific figures and events in the history of their nations. Statuaries feature prominently among these monuments. This paper examines the positioning of three statues in Malawi. One of the statues is that of the first president of the country, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, another is of the third president, Bingu wa Mutharika, and the other – a statue that was never erected – that of India’s nationa…
Lunatics and Intellectuals
The Zomba Mental Hospital in Malawi has gained mythical connotations in the history of its existence, both through its association with political detention and through serving as a reminder for the sane of the precariousness of their assumption of mental well-being. Some of the discourse surrounding the institution, and indeed surrounding the question of madness, has found its way into literary works. Within African literature, a fair share of at…
Reading Precarity, Disability and Narrative Agency in Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel and Measuring Time
(2020). Reading Precarity, Disability and Narrative Agency in Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel and Measuring Time. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 32, Precarity in South/African Texts, pp. 178-186
Lake lore
Lake Malawi, with its flora and fauna, exists as a pervasive presence in the collective creative imaginary of Malawian artists. This is evident through the presence of the lake as a feature in poetry, painting, and the novel among various genres. In this paper, the central position that is being advanced is that the lake does not only feature as an image, but also exists as a paradoxical symbolic element, where the water stands as a life-giving f…
The Prophet in Music
Music plays various roles in contemporary Africa. This paper examines a specific role — how songs contribute to the public image of a specific personality, Prophet Shepherd Bushiri. The paper argues that the image that people have come to know about the South Africa based prophet is reflected in the music that is created around him as a religious celebrity engaged in preaching the prosperity gospel. Structurally, the argument illustrates how the …
African poetry and the intellectual
In The Wretched of the Earth (1963), Frantz Fanon holds an optimistic view of the intellectual in the colony, as one who plays a key role in confronting the colonial administrators and addressing them on level intellectual turf. Long after African countries have gained independence, university campuses continue to sprout and grow on the continent. The intellectual finds their position changed. Now, intellectuals are under scrutiny more than ever,…
The Madando Rhetoric
‘Madando’ is a term that anyone who voted in the 2019 tripartite elections in Malawi should be familiar with, mainly due to the one person who has since become associated with the use of the term. It is a term that calls to mind the mismanagement of the elections and the subsequent successful challenge mounted by opposition parties. Crucially, songs on the fraudulent elections have been produced in the country, offering rich creative critiques of…
Imagining the Malawian urban space in Lawrence Kadzitche’s Katakwe Kutauni
There is a growing trend in African literature to examine the works of literature as windows into contemporary city life, where the city ceases to be a mere background, but is imagined as an organic reality that gives life to, and is sustained by, the denizens living in it. Many cities have become the focus of such studies. In this article, the city in focus is Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, imagined in James Kadzitche’s Chichewa language novel…
Maybe We Carry Our Mothers’ Traumas in Our Bones”
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