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A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder
Contributor(s): Musila, Grace A. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1847011276     ISBN-13: 9781847011275
Publisher: James Currey
OUR PRICE: $109.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2015
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | African
- True Crime | Murder - General
- Social Science | Gender Studies
Dewey: 364.152
LCCN: 2015303344
Series: African Articulations
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.4" L (1.45 lbs) 233 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Cultural Region - African
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
 
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Publisher Description:
Julie Ann Ward was a British tourist and wildlife photographer who went missing in Kenya's Maasai Mara Game Reserve in 1988 and was eventually found to have been murdered. Her death and the protracted search for her killers, stillat large, were hotly contested in the media. Many theories emerged as to how and why she died, generating three trials, several "true crime" books, and much speculation and rumour. At the core of Musila's study are thefollowing questions: why would this young woman's death be the subject of such strong contestations of ideas and multiple truths? And what does this reveal about cultural productions of truth and knowledge in Kenya and Britain, particularly in the light of the responses to her disappearance of the Kenyan police, the British Foreign Office, and the British High Commission in Nairobi. Building on existing scholarship on African history, narrative, gender and postcolonial studies, the author reveals how the Julie Ward murder and its attendant discourses offer insights into the journeys of ideas, and how these traverse the porous boundaries of the relationship between Kenya and Britain, and, by extension, Africa and the Global North. Grace A. Musila is a lecturer in the English Department of Stellenbosch University, South Africa
 
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