Grace A Musila

A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour (eBook, PDF)

Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder

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Produktbeschreibung

Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been reported and investigated.

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 233
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782045908
• Artikelnr.: 56163823

Autorenporträt

Grace A. Musila

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Versions of Truth Portrait of an Assassin State Sex, Gender
and the 'Criminal' State Julie Ward's Death and the Kenyan Grapevine
Wildebeest, 'Noble Savages' and Moi's Kenya: Cultural Illiteracies in the
Search for Julie Ward's Killers Farms in Africa: Wildlife Tourism,
Conservation and Whiteness in Postcolonial Africa Faultlines in the
Official British Response to the Julie Ward Mystery Engaging Modernity
Afterword by Stephanie Newell