Mugo Muhia
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mugo Muhia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mugo |
| FAMILY NAME | Muhia |
| SIGNATURE | MUHIA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kenyatta University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Sexing African Time and Space”
This article examines how Alain Mabanckou uses sexual allegories in his novel Broken glass (2010) to express (neo)-colonial realities in which Africa is charmed by the West into assuming the role of the sexual subaltern. Mabanckou appears to reinvigorate the sexual allegories of rape and prostitution for expressing the penetrative tendencies of colonialism by affixing their connotations of exploitation to the harsh socio-economic and political re…
The subdued nature
Modernity has come to be identified with industrialization and the changes that accompanied the then-emerging industrial societies. One major effect of modernity is the rise of the capitalist society on which Karl Marx’s matrix of economic theorization is founded. Building on Marx’s critique of the capitalist society, this article aims at critically reading the relationship that exists between the project of capitalism and the environment in the …
Phantoms of hysteria—Novelistic phantasmagoria in Lesego Rampolokeng’s whiteheart
This article examines how the narrator in Lesego Rampolokeng’s Whiteheart: Prologue to Hysteria (hereafter designated as W/H) deploys spectres of hysteria as a novelistic phantasmagoria to challenge the subject in the fictive post-apartheid South Africa and re-examine how spectres of Apartheid devour the country through veiled repressive juridical structures. The novel is written in paragraphs/sections which appear to be disjointed, and this form…
The subdued nature
Modernity has come to be identified with industrialization and the changes that accompanied the then-emerging industrial societies. One major effect of modernity is the rise of the capitalist society on which Karl Marx’s matrix of economic theorization is founded. Building on Marx’s critique of the capitalist society, this article aims at critically reading the relationship that exists between the project of capitalism and the environment in the …
Phantoms of hysteria—Novelistic phantasmagoria in Lesego Rampolokeng’s whiteheart
This article examines how the narrator in Lesego Rampolokeng’s Whiteheart: Prologue to Hysteria (hereafter designated as W/H) deploys spectres of hysteria as a novelistic phantasmagoria to challenge the subject in the fictive post-apartheid South Africa and re-examine how spectres of Apartheid devour the country through veiled repressive juridical structures. The novel is written in paragraphs/sections which appear to be disjointed, and this form…
“Sexing African Time and Space”
This article examines how Alain Mabanckou uses sexual allegories in his novel Broken glass (2010) to express (neo)-colonial realities in which Africa is charmed by the West into assuming the role of the sexual subaltern. Mabanckou appears to reinvigorate the sexual allegories of rape and prostitution for expressing the penetrative tendencies of colonialism by affixing their connotations of exploitation to the harsh socio-economic and political re…
The subdued nature
Modernity has come to be identified with industrialization and the changes that accompanied the then-emerging industrial societies. One major effect of modernity is the rise of the capitalist society on which Karl Marx’s matrix of economic theorization is founded. Building on Marx’s critique of the capitalist society, this article aims at critically reading the relationship that exists between the project of capitalism and the environment in the …
Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 work) · Agrarian society (1 work) · Agriculture (1 work)