Urban obsessions, urban fears

Description:

Kurtz's analysis of the development of the Kenyan novel in English emphasizes the historical contingencies affecting the production of literature in Kenya, and how succeeding generations have drawn from and expanded the thematic repertoire established by the "first generation" of works in the 1960s.

subjects: History,  Literature and society,  City and town life in literature,  History and criticism,  Cities and towns in literature,  Kenyan fiction (English),  Rural-urban migration in literature,  Postcolonialism in literature,  Postcolonialism,  Decolonization in literature

Places: Kenya

Times: 20th century