Ibrahim Wachira
Biographic Data
| ID | 9240159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ibrahim Wachira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ibrahim |
| FAMILY NAME | Wachira |
| SIGNATURE | WACHIRA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kenyatta University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“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…
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…
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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…
African history and culture studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Dialectic (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work) · Historicism (1 work)