Colonial Inscriptions: Race, Sex, and Class in Kenya

by Carolyn Martin Shaw

Book Overview

In Kenyan colonialist imagery, the Kikuyu were vilified as deceitful servants while the Maasai were romanticized as noble savages in a fashion similar to American representation of the Black slave and the "wild" Indian. Carolyn Martin Shaw examines this imagery in the works of historians and ethnographers, as well as in novels and films.

Through the works of Louis Leakey, Jomo Kenyatta, Elspeth Huxley, and Isak Dinesen,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816625255
• ISBN13: 9780816625253
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 9.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"