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1、EasternAfricanLiteraryandCulturalStudiesISSN:2327-7408(Print)2327-7416(Online)Journalhomepage:http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/real20HostileWitnessesandQueerLifeinKenyanPrisonWritingTaiwoAdetunjiOsinubiTocitethisarticle:TaiwoAdetunjiOsinubi(2014)HostileWitnessesandQu
2、eerLifeinKenyanPrisonWriting,EasternAfricanLiteraryandCulturalStudies,1:3-4,152-166,DOI:10.1080/23277408.2015.1065463Tolinktothisarticle:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2015.1065463Publishedonline:24Jul2015.SubmityourarticletothisjournalArticleviews:101Viewrelat
3、edarticlesViewCrossmarkdataFullTerms&Conditionsofaccessandusecanbefoundathttp://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=real20Downloadby:[111.122.198.185]Date:06March2016,At:00:42EasternAfricanLiteraryandCulturalStudies,2014Vol.1,No.3&4,152–166htt
4、p://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2015.1065463©2015Taylor&FrancisHostileWitnessesandQueerLifeinKenyanPrisonWriting1TaiwoAdetunjiOsinubiDepartmentofEnglish,UniversityofWesternOntario,London,CanadaE-mail:tosinubi@uwo.caThisarticleexploresthreeKenyanpoliticalprisonnarra
5、tives,J.M.Kariuki’sMauMauDetainee(1963),NgugiwaThiong’o’sDetained:AWriter’sPrisonDiary(1981),andMainawaKĩnyatti’sKenya:APrisonNotebook(2009),asarchivesofanxiousdisputesoveralternativesexualintimaciesinKenyaattheverymomentinwhichpoliticiansformulatedvisionsforafutur
6、eaftercolonization.Situatingprisonwritingwithinemergingqueerhistoricisms,theauthorarguesthatsincerepresentationsofhomosexualityhavefrequentlyemergedthroughdenialornegativeexemplification,thetaskistoexaminethefunctionsofsuchdenialandnegativitywithinthegenderpolitics
7、ofpoliticalstruggle.Thedebatesoverhomosexualityinthesenarrativespreserveintra-Africanconversations,whichreadersnowrevisitinthecontextofdemandsforpoliticalrecognitionandtransformationsinculturalrepresentationofalternativesexualities.Keywords:Queer,prisonhomosexualit
8、y,anti-colonialism,NgugiwaThiong’o,sexualfreedoms,sexualcommonsIntroduction:PrisonWritingandtheFoundationalLogicofResistanceForseveralyearsnow,Af
