URBAN OBSESSIONS, URBAN FEARS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KENYAN NOVEL Mystery & Detective ISBN-10 : 1592217087

ISBN-10 : 1592217087

ISBN-13 : 9781302906504

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URBAN OBSESSIONS, URBAN FEARS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KENYAN NOVEL Mystery & Detective ISBN-10 : 1592217087Kurtz'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. He explores the relationship between the novel and the city, and how obsessions and fears about urbanization have been expressed and represented through