Construction of Gendered Identities through Cultural Memory in Moses Isegawa’s Novel, Snakepit

Barasa, Remmy Shiundu

dc.contributor.author	Barasa, Remmy Shiundu
dc.date.accessioned	2020-11-09T08:22:47Z
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dc.date.issued	2017-12
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dc.description.abstract	- Creative writing from Uganda hardly passes without the mention of the Idi Amin era which has significantly influenced the writing from that country. In this paper I examine how Isegawa narrates a people’s cultural memory to define gender identities in his novel, Snakepit. Cultural memory permeates individual as well as social identity formation. Narrating cultural memory results from long interactions with others as well as semiotic objects in a particular social setting. Snakepit was purposively sampled to underscore the interpenetrating relationship between cultural memory and gendered identity formations. The discussion applies itself to the post-colonial theory to explore and make meaning out of the narrative.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Journal of English Language and Literature	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	;Vol. 8 No. 3
dc.subject	Narration; Gendered Identities; Cultural Memory; Snakepit; Isegawa	en_US
dc.title	Construction of Gendered Identities through Cultural Memory in Moses Isegawa’s Novel, Snakepit	en_US
dc.type	Preprint	en_US