Titlebook: Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya; S. M. Shamsul Alam Book 2007 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007 critique

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Introduction: Hegemony and Counterhegemony in Colonial Context,er Majesty’s agent and Counsel General at Zanzibar, A. H. Hardinge, in a proclamation on in July 1, 1895, announced that he was taking over the Coastal areas as well as the interior that included the Kikuyu land, now known as Central Province. Formal Colonial rule ended when Kenya gained independenc

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,Rebel Yell: The Field Marshal’s Story,ings by various colonial subalterns emerged as soon as colonial hegemony was established. These counterhegemonic activities, in turn, transformed the strategies by which the colonial state deployed its power. The case of Mau Mau illustrates this mutuality between colonial hegemony and subaltern coun

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Mau Mau and the Critique of Nationalism,alism,” or the idea of “nation,” remains paramount. Essentially an ideological construct, nationalism encompasses economic, social, and cultural dimensions of anticolonial resistance. After the departure of the colonial power, significantly, the postcolonial ruling elite adopted nationalism as “nati

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,Writing as Subversion: Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Mau Mau,au fiction as colonial fiction, which he also identified as “settlers’ novelists” (Maughan-Brown 1985, 106). This group of writers includes E. Harley and Richard Ruark. He also refers to “liberal fiction” from the metropolis, including the works of M. Cornish, V. S. Reid, and G. R. Fazakerley, among

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The Subaltern Writes Back,that emerged during and the aftermath of colonialism and that continues to exist is connected with the colonial technology of power. That history becomes an integral part of dominant colonial culture, whose main goal is to consolidate and perpetuate colonial power. That is why, perhaps, early histor

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Conclusion: A Presentist Approach to Mau Mau,nt review article, Michael Chege (2004) has argued that scholars have yet to decide on the precise nature of the revolt. Forty years have passed since it gained independence, but Kenya still struggles to define in which direction, as a “modern” nation-state, it should move. In 1992, after years of M

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,Rebel Yell: The Field Marshal’s Story,he insurgency. Insurgency leaders were characterized as “law-breaking criminals and forces of darkness:’ Its supreme leader, Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi, eloquently articulated the Mau Mau discourse during the period of struggle.