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1 to 1 in the narrative mirror: Fictional autobiography and the problem of Maasai identity in Henry Ole Kulet's writings

Mwangi, Evan

English studies in Africa, 2001-01, Vol.44 (1), p.13 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Oxford: Taylor & Francis Ltd

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  • Título:
    1 to 1 in the narrative mirror: Fictional autobiography and the problem of Maasai identity in Henry Ole Kulet's writings
  • Autor: Mwangi, Evan
  • Assuntos: Autobiographies ; Culture ; Education ; Fiction ; Identity ; Kulet, Henry R ole (1946- ) ; Literary criticism ; Minority & ethnic groups ; Modernity ; Nilotic languages ; Novels ; Postcolonialism ; Traditions ; Writers
  • É parte de: English studies in Africa, 2001-01, Vol.44 (1), p.13
  • Descrição: [...]instead of setting one community against the other as was the reality in the tribal clashes which inspired the novel, Kulet makes the clashes a family affair. The point is that although Ole Kulet's fiction has been placed under the 'popular' rubric to occlude it from mainstream studies, the worth of 'popular' literature is now seeping into the Kenyan academy. Because his fiction is the most ethnically aware in this category of marginalised literatures, Ole Kulet's art more than deserves mention in the study of the region's cultural politics. The urge to glorify the putative past becomes more urgent if even after independence a community is represented by dominant groups as lacking in civility.2 This recourse to antiquity is, in Bhabha's words, `the process of remembering-to-forget that gives the national culture its deep psychological hold and its political legitimacy' ('A Question of Survival' 93), which may itself be a fictional essentialism but is necessary in the constitution of identity. Because `the activity of forging cultural identity seems to take place in relation to the dialogic construction of otherness' (Low 264), the Maasai people as portrayed in the fictions of Ole Kulet, constitute their identity by othering those communities that have othered them. Mzee Za Kale (Kiswahili for the old man of the remote past) is a contested metonym of both the tradition and the cancerous modernity. [...]Roiman's fight against post-colonial and precolonial authority, is an ambivalent stance that leaves, at the end of the narrative, the narrator still in a study of a self he cannot grasp.
  • Editor: Oxford: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Idioma: Inglês
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