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For nearly a decade, writers´ collectives such as Kwani Trust in Kenya and Femrite , the Ugandan women writers´ association, have dramatically reshaped the East African literary scene. This text extends the purview of postcolonial literary studies by providing the long overdue critical inquiry that these writers so urgently deserve.

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Promise and Fraud: The Politics and Poetics of the Modern Historical Modernities: Epics of Love and Literacy The Dark Sides of Modernity: Citizens, Strangers, and the Production of Moral Indifference Mapping Global Modernities: Property and Propriety in the Time of AIDS ´The State of Tides´ and the Ethics of Responsibility

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MARIE KRUGER Assistant Professor in the English department at the University of Iowa, USA.

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