“The mouth that ate itself”: Reflections on Joseph Kamarũ, oral artist extraordinaire

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DOI :

https://doi.org/10.17159/tl.v58i1.10413

Mots-clés :

intertextuality, interdisciplinarity, Joseph Kamarũ, Kenyan literature and song, oral artist

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Biographie de l'auteur

  • Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States

    Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ is a professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States, where he teaches African and Caribbean literatures. An interdisciplinary interest in literary criticism, folklore and mythology, and performance informs his research and publications.

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Bakhtin, Mikhail. The Dialogic Imagination. Trans. Caryl Emerson & Michael Holquist. U of Texas P, 1981.

Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford U P, 2000.

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Constance Farrington. Grove Weidenfeld, 1963.

Kamarũ, Joseph. “Chunga Marima.” Nduti One Stop. Nairobi, n. d. VCD.

Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ, Gĩchingiri & Joseph Kamarũ. Interview. Nairobi, Jul. 1993.

Njogu, Kimani & Herve Maupeau. Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa. L'Institut francais de reserche en Afrique (IFRA-Nairobi), 2007.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Devil on the Cross. Heinemann, 1987.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Matigari. Trans. Wangũi wa Goro. Heinemann, 1987.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Petals of Blood. Heinemann, 1977.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o & Ngũgĩ wa Mĩriĩ. I Will Marry When I Want. Heinemann, 1982.

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Publiée

2021-04-28

Numéro

Vol. 58 No 1 (2021)

Rubrique

Essays

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(c) Copyright Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 2021

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Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ, G. . (2021). “The mouth that ate itself”: Reflections on Joseph Kamarũ, oral artist extraordinaire. Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde, 58(1), 10-17. https://doi.org/10.17159/tl.v58i1.10413