Inscribing Memories on Dead Bodies

Sex, Gender, and State Power in the Julie Ward Death in Kenya

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2182158
AutoresGrace A Musila (0000-0003-1572-4477, Stellenbosch University, autor de correspondencia), Grace Musila
Año2008
Volumen2
Número3
Páginas439-455
Fecha de publicación2008-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Eastern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1753-1055 • E-ISSN: 1753-1063
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17531050802401817
OpenAlexW2069304698
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas27

This article examines speculations on the circumstances surrounding the 1988 murder of the 28-year-old British tourist Julie Ward in Kenya, with a particular focus on how circulating discourses in Kenyan and British social imaginaries shaped these speculations. The article suggests that Ward's death took place in a discursive landscape marked by deeply layered and intermeshed contours of British and Kenyan social memories, which have over time crystallised into popular wisdom regarding the multiple intersections between sex/uality, race, gender and state power in Kenyan and British social imaginaries. Against this background, an understanding of social memories yields insights into the interpretative patterns emerging from the Julie Ward mystery, and the prominence of sex/uality in these speculations, as mapped along tropes of interracial rape, female sexual moralities and phallic state power

Kenya · Phallic stage · Political science · Power (physics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Psychology · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact