Colonial Inscriptions: Race, Sex, and Class in Kenya
Language: English
Published by University of Minnesota Press, 1995
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- Title
- Colonial Inscriptions: Race, Sex, and Class in Kenya
- Author
- Shaw, Carolyn Martin
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Very Good
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0816625255
- ISBN 13
- 9780816625253
- Item weight
- 1.1 pounds
In Kenyan colonialist imagery, the Kikuyu were vilified as deceitful servants while the Maasai were romanticized as noble savages in a fashion similar to American representation of the Black slave and the "wild" Indian. Carolyn Martin Shaw examines this imagery in the works of historians and ethnographers, as well as in novels and films.
Through the works of Louis Leakey, Jomo Kenyatta, Elspeth Huxley, and Isak Dinesen, along with her own ethnographic research, Martin Shaw investigates the discourses that shaped inequalities, rivalries, and fantasies in colonial Kenya. She explores narratives of domination and subordination, arguing that Europeans brought to Africa long-established ideas of difference that influenced racial inequalities in the colonial situation. Including discussion of the controversial practice of female genital mutilation, Colonial Inscriptions presents an African American woman's views of how images of African colonialism have been influenced by European and American racism and sexual fantasies."Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Carolyn Martin Shaw is an associate professor and chair of the Board of Studies in the anthropology department, and Provost of Kresge College at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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