Queering settler romance: The reparative eugenic landscape in Nora strange’s Kenyan novels

Elizabeth W. Williams

doi:10.4324/9781351142045

Queering settler romance: The reparative eugenic landscape in Nora strange’s Kenyan novels

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Abstract

In Nora Strange’s 1933 novel Kenya Noon, a raucous party of Anglo-Kenyan settlers, gin and tonics in hand, exchange limericks satirizing the bad reputation of their community. One “bright young thing” entertains the crowd with the following offering: Adam and Eve after the Fall Settled in Kenya. Now lis’en all! Draped in a skin up to the shin, While he fashioned a boma, She danced in n’goma And let in original sin. (Kenya Noon, 201).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Archiving Settler Colonialism
Subtitle of host publication	Culture, Space and Race
Pages	190-204
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351142038
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351142045
State	Published - Jan 1 2018

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