| 词条 | Charity Waciuma |
| 释义 |
| name = Charity Waciuma | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Charity Wanjiku Waciuma | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1936}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = Kenyan | other_names = | occupation = Writer | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = Daughter of Mumbi }}Charity Waciuma (born 1936) is a Kenyan writer, who wrote several novels for adolescents and an autobiographical novel, Daughter of Mumbi (1969). Her work draws on Kikuyu legends and storytelling traditions.[1] In the 1960s Waciuma and Grace Ogot became the first Kenyan women writers to be published in English.[2] BiographyCharity Wanjiku Waciuma grew up in pre-Independence Kenya, during the violent anti-colonial struggle between the Mau-Mau and British rulers. In accordance with Kikuyu naming traditions she was given her father's younger sister's name Wanjiku ("the gossip"), her last name Waciuma, meaning "beads", being a nickname of her grandmother’s father "because he had as many goats as beads in a necklace".[3][3] She became one of Kenya's pioneering writers for children with the publication in 1966 of her first book Mweru, the Ostrich Girl, which was followed by her other titles for young adults: The Golden Feather, Merry Making, and Who's Calling?.[4] Her autobiographical work Daughter of Mumbi, published in 1969, tells of the tensions felt by an adolescent who was torn between her allegiance to traditional identities (Mumbi was the mythical female founder of the Kikuyu) and a father who sees his support for British colonial rule as an allegiance to modernity.[5][6] The book is dedicated to Waciuma's father, who was killed during the Mau Mau Emergency.[7] Waciuma wrote in English hesitantly on the controversial cultural tradition of female genital excision, at a time when not all authors of African descent in the 1960s did so. Her works were published before the decolonization of Kenya, and writing on this sensitive issue was before the fight for women's rights had become prominent, and before the physical and psychological effects of that particular practice for affected women were generally acknowledged or given global attention.[8][9] Works
References1. ^Margaret Busby, An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent (1992), London, Viking, 1993, p. 377. {{Portal |Children's literature}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Waciuma, Charity}}{{Kenya-writer-stub}}2. ^"12 Pioneering Kenyan Women" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020173137/http://www.africa.com/12-pioneering-kenyan-women/# |date=20 October 2016 }}, Africa.com. 3. ^{{cite book|title=Daughter of Mumbi|page=8}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/bitstream/handle/11295/17358/Muchiri_The%20female%20autobiographical%20voice%20in%20independent%20Kenya.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y|last=Muchiri|first=Jennifer Nyambura|title=The Female Autobiographical Voice in Independent Kenya" (thesis)|publisher=University of Nairobi}} 5. ^Jacqueline Bardolph, "Waciuma, Charity", in Lorna Sage, ed., The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, Cambridge University Press, 1999 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a795115308~db=all|title=Tradition and change in charity Waciuma's autobiography daughter of Mumbi|last=Neubauer|first=C.E|pages=211–221 | date=18 Jul 2008|publisher=Taylor & Francis|accessdate=30 October 2016}} 7. ^1 [https://woyingi.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/book-review-daughter-of-mumbi-by-charity-wanjiku-waciuma/ "Book Review: Daughter of Mumbi by Charity Wanjiku Waciuma"], The Woyingi Blog, 8 September 2010. 8. ^{{cite web|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/407770|title=Rising Anthills: African and African American Writing on Female Genital Excision 1960–2000 (review)|last=Baker|first=Charlotte|publisher=Project MUSE|journal=Research in African Literatures|volume=42|number=1|year=2011 |page=191|issn=0034-5210|access-date=8 November 2016}} 9. ^{{cite book|title=Rising Anthills: African and African American Writing on Female Genital Excision 1960–2000|last= Bekers|first=Elisabeth|location= Madison|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|year= 2010|isbn=978-0299234942|oclc=756233607}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=76251178&searchType=1&permalink=y|title=Mweru, the Ostrich Girl|series=East African readers library|volume=1|lccn=76251178}} 11. ^{{cite book|title=The Golden Feather|lccn=72014809|series=East African Readers Library |volume=4}} 12. ^{{cite book|title=Daughter of Mumbi|series=Modern African Library|lccn=72286351}} 13. ^{{cite book|title=Merry-Making|series=The Lioncub book|volume=2|lccn=73983731}} 14. ^{{cite book|title=Who's Calling?|series=The Lioncub book|volume=3|lccn=73179140}} 11 : Kenyan women writers|Women children's writers|Living people|Kenyan novelists|Women novelists|20th-century novelists|Women autobiographers|20th-century women writers|1936 births|Autobiographers|20th-century Kenyan women writers |
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