Andrew Nyongesa
Biographic Data
| ID | 936322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Nyongesa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Nyongesa |
| SIGNATURE | NYONGESA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murang'a University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3926-1585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
History and subjective standpoints: Postmodern reading of selected works of African fiction
The modern world privileges history as an insightful source of information that may be relied on to inform decisions about the present and future. To uphold the modernist vision, historical narratives influence many aspects of society, particularly the political sector. Further, modern nation states are founded on historical events, which establish the principles upon which the nations are founded. However, divergent voices argue that historical …
Towards a Theory of Spirit Possession in Postcolonial Fictions: Alternative Paradigm in Stream-of-Consciousness Literatures
Witchcraft and Exorcism: Spirit Possession and the Malevolent Other in Contemporary Africanized Religious Societies
Migration and pathology: A comparative reading of fragmented selves in Brian Chikwava’s Harare North
The paper is a comparative reading of dissociation and spirit possession as worthwhile tropes of analyzing the fragmented selves to lay basis of interpretation of similar works with African and Western cultural heritages. In spite of availability of critical works on pathological consequences of othering on African immigrants, this comparative reading is absent. Some literary scholars interrogate the clinical trope and point out the need to incor…
Colonialism and Mimicry: A Literary Lens into Governance in Africa
In the recent past, scholars have delved into the challenges African countries face in establishing Western-style democracy, often overlooking the insights provided by literary works. Most political and social science writers attribute these challenges to corruption, ethnic mobilization, and illiteracy (Forson et al. 2016). However, little attention has been given to the similarities between colonial structures and post-independent African autocr…
The centre and pathology: Postmodernist reading of madness in the oppressor in contemporary fiction
This study examines the pathological consequences of in-between identity on the members of the dominant group in polarized cosmopolitan settings in Lessing’s The Grass is Singing (1950). The study is a postmodernist reading of postcolonial literature to interrogate the pathological consequences of the constant shifts of identity in migrant characters. Most postcolonial studies contend that marginalization occasioned by the dominant group result i…
The Feminist Writer and the Subaltern: A Perspective on Ole Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah
Dominant literary conversations like post-structuralism have crowned the literary writer as an impartial and reliable voice for the voiceless in oppressive cultural settings. Since the marginal group is weak and cannot speak for themselves, the intellectual is given express authority to articulate their issues. Emerging voices have nonetheless questioned the author’s eligibility to speak for the marginal groups. Given the diversity typical of the…
London, Cape Town, Joburg (Zukiswa Wanner)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Otherness and other selves within: Fragmented selves in Nuruddin Farah’s Close Sesame and Maps
Hybridity and fixity: Modes of resistance in Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise and A Mighty Collision of Two Worlds
Cultural Hybridity and Fixity: Strategies of Resistance in Migration Literatures
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Cultural Hybridity and Fixity: Strategies of Resistance in Migration Literatures
Hybridity and fixity: Modes of resistance in Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise and A Mighty Collision of Two Worlds
London, Cape Town, Joburg (Zukiswa Wanner)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Otherness and other selves within: Fragmented selves in Nuruddin Farah’s Close Sesame and Maps
The Feminist Writer and the Subaltern: A Perspective on Ole Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah
Dominant literary conversations like post-structuralism have crowned the literary writer as an impartial and reliable voice for the voiceless in oppressive cultural settings. Since the marginal group is weak and cannot speak for themselves, the intellectual is given express authority to articulate their issues. Emerging voices have nonetheless questioned the author’s eligibility to speak for the marginal groups. Given the diversity typical of the…
The centre and pathology: Postmodernist reading of madness in the oppressor in contemporary fiction
This study examines the pathological consequences of in-between identity on the members of the dominant group in polarized cosmopolitan settings in Lessing’s The Grass is Singing (1950). The study is a postmodernist reading of postcolonial literature to interrogate the pathological consequences of the constant shifts of identity in migrant characters. Most postcolonial studies contend that marginalization occasioned by the dominant group result i…
Migration and pathology: A comparative reading of fragmented selves in Brian Chikwava’s Harare North
The paper is a comparative reading of dissociation and spirit possession as worthwhile tropes of analyzing the fragmented selves to lay basis of interpretation of similar works with African and Western cultural heritages. In spite of availability of critical works on pathological consequences of othering on African immigrants, this comparative reading is absent. Some literary scholars interrogate the clinical trope and point out the need to incor…
Colonialism and Mimicry: A Literary Lens into Governance in Africa
In the recent past, scholars have delved into the challenges African countries face in establishing Western-style democracy, often overlooking the insights provided by literary works. Most political and social science writers attribute these challenges to corruption, ethnic mobilization, and illiteracy (Forson et al. 2016). However, little attention has been given to the similarities between colonial structures and post-independent African autocr…
Towards a Theory of Spirit Possession in Postcolonial Fictions: Alternative Paradigm in Stream-of-Consciousness Literatures
Witchcraft and Exorcism: Spirit Possession and the Malevolent Other in Contemporary Africanized Religious Societies
History and subjective standpoints: Postmodern reading of selected works of African fiction
The modern world privileges history as an insightful source of information that may be relied on to inform decisions about the present and future. To uphold the modernist vision, historical narratives influence many aspects of society, particularly the political sector. Further, modern nation states are founded on historical events, which establish the principles upon which the nations are founded. However, divergent voices argue that historical …
Art (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Hybridity (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)