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Publications

Forthcoming

Muchiri, J.  Forthcoming.  Re-imagining and Restaging Ageing and (Dis)ability in African Theatre: Francis Imbuga’s The Return of Mgofu.

2022

Muchiri, J.  2022.  The Art of Narrating Pain in Margaret Ogola’s Place of Destiny. The Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa. 13(1):221-250., Nairobi: Native Intelligencethe_art_of_narrating_pain_in_place_of_destiny_2022.pdf

2021

Muchiri, J, Osaaji M, Odari M.  2021.  The Agile Thinking and Subversion in Chinua Achebe’s The Education of a British-Protected Child. Nairobi Journal of Literature. 9:124-143.
Osaaji, M, Odari M, Muchiri J.  2021.  From Alterity to Agency: Pathways of Subversion and Resistance in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Personal Essays. The Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa. 12(1):1-16.
  2021.  The Use of Ellipsis as a Narrative Technique in Yvonne Owuor's Dust. Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies. 7(1&2):1-21.the_use_of_ellipsis_as_a_narrative_technique_in_yvonne_owuor_s_dust_published_2021.pdf
  2021.  “Reflections on the Detective Novel as an Allegory of Contemporary Kenya.”. Journal of Language, Technology& Entrepreneurship in Africa. 12(1):17-35.

2017

Muchiri, J.  2017.  “A Human Rights Reading of Meja Mwangi’s Going Down River Road.”. Poverty and Human Rights: East African Perspectives. , Nairobi: Focus

2015

Muchiri, J, Wasamba P(eds.).  2015.  Kenya Meets Korea in Essays. , Nairobi: College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Nairobi
Muchiri, J, Wasamba P.  2015.  Reflections of Two African Researchers on Oral Testimony Fieldwork in South Korea. The Nairobi Journal of Literature. (8):73-96.
Muchiri, J.  2015.  Narration of the Human Condition and Dystopia in Cho Se-Hui’s The Dwarf and Meja Mwangi’s The Cockroach Dance. The Nairobi Journal of Literature. (8):16-33.
Muchiri, J.  2015.  Contesting Public Discourses on Sexuality in Kenya: a Reading of Kevin Mwachiro's Invisible. AGENDA. 103(00.00):1-6.
Muchiri, J.  2015.  “Ng’ang’a Mbugua’s Different Colours as an Allegory of the Kenyan Nation.”. Chemchemi – International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 10(1):83-95.

2014

Muchiri, J.  2014.  The Intersection of the Self and History in Kenyan Autobiographies. Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies. 1(2):1-11.the_intersection_of_the_self_and_history_in_kenyan_autobiographies.pdf
Muchiri, J.  2014.  Understanding Modern Korea through Oral Testimonies. HEKIMA Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. VI(1):66-85.understanding_modern_korea_through_oral_testimonies.pdf

2013

Muchiri, J.  2013.  Defining the Self through Autobiography: Saga McOdongo's Deadly Money Maker. The Nairobi Journal of Literature. 7(December 2013):119-131.
Wasamba, P, Muchiri J.  2013.  Seoul Speaks: Narratives of Ubanization in Korea. , Nairobi: Kenya Oral Literature Association

2012

Wasamba, P, Muchiri J, DH Muchugu Kiiru(eds.).  2012.  The Essay as a Handshake: Impressions on the Kenyan-Korean Interface. , Nairobi: Bridging the Divide: Networking African and Korean Researchers’ Project
Muchiri, J.  2012.  Capturing Socio-Cultural Diversity and Change through Oral Literature . The Global South. 5(2 Special Issue):77-92.
Muchiri, J.  2012.  Literature and Human Rights: the Case of Chimamanda Adichie’s Fiction . In Journal of Science Technology Education and Management. 5(1 & 2):139-159.

2010

Muchiri, J.  2010.  Reading and Understanding Prose. Marimba Publications Online.
Muchiri, J.  2010.  Reading and Understanding Poetry. Marimba Publications Online.
Muchiri, J.  2010.  The Child Narrator: George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin. , Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag
Muchiri, J.  2010.  Women’s Autobiography: Voices from Independent Kenya. , Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag

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