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Contents:
Africa and political incarceration --
Human rights and narratives of incarceration in the colonial Kenya --
Political incarceration and the postcolonial period in Kenya --
Chapter 1: A tale of two prison tales --
Who are the Babukusu? --
The Sela and Mwambu tale and incarceration --
Power dynamics and belly politics --
Gender prison and gender politics --
Songs as subversion --
The Waswahili people --
The Liyongo epic as a prison narrative --
The question of gender --
The I-pronoun, truth, and trauma --
Chapter 2: Articulating human rights violations in the pioneer prison memoir --
A martyr in the making --
The narrative imperative --
Torture as human rights violation --
The 'I' and the 'we' --
Truth claims --
Issues of style --
Chapter 3: The tenor and genre of Ngugi's prison narrative --
Narrator as harbinger of truth --
Torture and trauma --
Political manifesto and art manifesto --
Foreshortened history of oppression --
List of grievances --
Calling audience to action --
Chapter 4: Doing things with words in prison poetry --
The multiple is and speaking in tongues --
Why write? --
Swahili prosody and poetry as autobiography --
Resistance and truth --
Masking the message --
A range of miscellaneous voices --
The journey motif --
Voice of the unborn --
Chapter 5: The quest for the right to be human in prison poetry --
Where and why? --
Dissipation and disappearance of hope --
The female and parental selves --
Disavowal of ideology --
Trauma and tragedy --
Comparing Mazrui's and Abdalla's prison poetry.