Abstract This article examines the narratives and practices of return experienced by long-term Nairobi-based Luo seeking to make a home in rural western Kenya. Building home, being buried there, remain crucial many urban understandings successful life. is project full contingency: it relies on resources gained city, as well access land cultivation kin relations. Although ‘home’ ‘return’ were of...

Ce texte propose une étude préliminaire des informations relatives aux musiques et danses pratiquées par les esclaves afro-étatsuniens, contenues dans entretiens recueillis – plus de 2 000, collectés 1936 à 1938 pendant le New Deal Franklin Delanoe Roosevelt enquêteurs du Federal Writers’ Project la Works Progress Administration. Il présente circonstances lesquelles pouvaient être ainsi qu’une ...

Literary history teems with refusenik figures who, in one way or another, and for reason ‘prefer not to’ partake many of society's most sacrosanct pursuits who therefore rebel against fundamental social values, the part passively. Yet there is arguably only pure literary history; that is, a figure defined by nothing but his act radical refusal, uncontaminated any active positive desires: Melvil...