Anglophone heritage of literary criticism in Kenya
Our literature, written in English, is deeply entwined with colonial era
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Our literature, written in English, is deeply entwined with colonial era
Goldman wrote "Kellerman's Anthem" from “Dirty Dancing” for his wife, who wrote the movie.
William “Will” Howarth, professor of English, emeritus, and eminent Thoreau scholar and environmental humanist, died of interstitial lung disease at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center on June 6. He was 82.
Kenyan literary scholar Simon Gikandi says you can’t understand the rise of European culture — or for that matter, the formation of the modern world — without also knowing how European thinkers demonized Africans and the very idea of "blackness."
Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979) is a British-American writer and photographer. Of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, she describes herself as a (...)