A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour

Name: A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour
Brand: James Currey Ltd
SKU: 9781847011374
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Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder

Szerző: Grace A. Musila

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: James Currey Ltd

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PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying rol...

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Szerző

Grace A. Musila

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2015

oldal

233

EAN

9781847011374

Enbook ID

15474785

Kiadó

James Currey Ltd

Súly

362

Méretek

155 x 234 x 12

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PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY

Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been reported and investigated.

Julie Ann Ward was a British tourist and wildlife photographer who went missing in Kenya's Maasai Mara Game Reserve in 1988 and was eventually found to have been murdered. Her death and the protracted search for her killers, stillat large, were hotly contested in the media. Many theories emerged as to how and why she died, generating three trials, several "true crime" books, and much speculation and rumour.

At the core of Musila's study are thefollowing questions: why would this young woman's death be the subject of such strong contestations of ideas and multiple truths? And what does this reveal about cultural productions of truth and knowledge in Kenya and Britain, particularly in the light of the responses to her disappearance of the Kenyan police, the British Foreign Office, and the British High Commission in Nairobi.

Building on existing scholarship on African history, narrative,gender and postcolonial studies, the author reveals how the Julie Ward murder and its attendant discourses offer insights into the journeys of ideas, and how these traverse the porous boundaries of the relationship between Kenya and Britain, and by extension, Africa and the Global North.

Grace A. Musila is a lecturer in the English Department of Stellenbosch University, South Africa

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Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder

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