Pertinent modernist tenets such as bureaucracy, the nation state, rationality and dualism are at the heart of racism, and corruption. This study contends that postmodernism offers a comprehensive understanding of modernism to mitigate its effects on society.

Andrew Nyongesa is currently a lecturer at Murang'a University of Technology (Kenya) and a writer of fiction. Some of his published works are The Endless Battle (2016), The Water Cycle (2018), Many in One and Other Stories (2019), The Armageddon and Other Stories (2020) and Say my Name and Other Stories from Home and Away (2021) all of which are based on postcolonialism and eco-criticism. His scholarly works include Cultural Fixity and Hybridity: Strategies of Resistance in Safi Abdi's Fiction, 'Conversation with "other": Style and Pathology in Selected African Novels' by Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies, 'Humanity and Mother Nature: Ecological Reading of Ole Kulet's Blossoms of the Savannah' by Kenya Studies Review and 'Wagar and Motley "Archaic" Vestiges: A Postmodernist Reading of Contemporary Somalia Fiction' by Journal of Literary Studies. His latest publication is 'The Centre and Pathology: Postmodernist Reading of Madness in the Oppressor in Contemporary Fiction' by Cogent Arts and Humanities. His research interests are postcolonialism, postmodernism, speculative fiction, psychological criticism or stream of consciousness literature, Black aesthetics and eco-criticism. His PhD dissertation in the stream of consciousness literatures demonstrates his enthusiasm in mental health issues.

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Prof. John Geofrey Mugubi

1. Interrogating the Individuated Self: Background of Modernism and Postmodernism

2. The Modern State and the Demise of Culture: Failure of Post Independent States in East African Fiction

3. Modernism and Automatisation: Mechanisation of Humanity in Contemporary East African Fiction

4. Modernism and Pathology: Othering and Self Fragmentation in Selected East African Fiction

5. Modernism and 'Great Literature': The Marking Guide and Death of the East African Literary Writer

6. SUMMARIES, CONCLUSIONS AND RESEARCH FINDINGS

Index