Detecting globalisation, modernity and gender subjectivity in David Maillu'sBenni Kamba 009 in Operation DXT
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2182168 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, Mpalive‐hangson Msiska (Birkbeck, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 132-152 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Eastern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-1055 • E-ISSN: 1753-1063 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17531050802682879 |
| OpenAlex | W1968968712 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
Through a study of his detective novel, Benni Kamba 009 in Operation DX, and the debates surrounding the emergence of East African Popular literature in English, this paper reflects on the contribution of the Kenyan writer, David Maillu Maillu, David. 1986. Benni Kamba 009 in Operation DXT, Nairobi: Heinemann. [Google Scholar], to the production of a Popular discourse of Post-colonial African modernity. It argues that Maillu Maillu, David. 1980. For Mbatha and Rabeka, London: Macmillan. [Google Scholar] engages with the formation of new personal and public identities within a Post-colonial formation in which the Nationalist goal of full Decolonisation has given way to Neo-colonialism and an unethical Globalisation, facilitated by a corrupt leadership. It also contends that, whilst Maillu's adaptation of “the man of action” model from the classic Western Hardboiled novel offers him an imaginative hybrid counter-hegemonic narrative of agency and structure, it also blunts the radical edge of his proposal, as it forces him to accept undemocratic and patriarchal forms of power. Even so, the paper concludes that Maillu must be seen as a significant writer who has shown how African Popular literature in its heyday was not a purveyor of “corrupt” pleasures, but rather a site of serious debate about the character of Post-colonial modernity
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Colonialism · Epistemology · Globalization · Hegemony · Kenya · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · African history and culture studies · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
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Popular Arts in Africa
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |