Proximate historiographies in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s novel Kintu (2014) places alongside forms of historical fiction familiar to European readers, a form of historical causality that obeys a different logic, namely, one governed by the long-term efficacity of a curse uttered in pre-colonial Buganda. The novel can be read...

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Main Author: Russell West-Pavlov
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association 2021-05-01
Series:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
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Online Access:https://letterkunde.africa/article/view/8284