Cultural archives of atrocity: essays on the protest tradition in Kenyan literature, culture and society

Studies on the aesthetic representations of atrocity the world over have taken different discursive dimensions from history, sociology, political to human rights.

These perspectives are usually geared towards understanding the manifestations, extent, political, and economic implications of atrocities.

In all these cases, representation has been the singular concern.

This title brings together generic ways of interrogating artistic representations of atrocity in Kenya.

Couched on interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and cross-disciplinary approaches, essays in this volume investigate representations of atrocity in Kenyan literature, film, popular music and other mediated cultural art forms.