Voices Of The Civil Society And Donor Agents In Ole Kulet’s The Elephant Dance

Abstract

This study evaluates the conspicuous voices of the civil society and donor agencies in Ole Kulet’s The Elephant Dance. The objectives of the study were to illustrate how Ole Kulet’s has been influenced by the civil society organizations and donor agencies in his writing and the blurred relationship between literature and activism. I applied Feminism, Ecocriticism and Formalism theories of literature. The Formalist theory assisted my analysis of the form and style of the text. Feminism and Ecocriticism were relevant in the analysis of how women have been presented in the text and how the relationship between humans and nature is depicted in The Elephant Dance. I did a library research, read scholarly journals, students’ dissertations, essays and newspaper articles in the collection of secondary data. However, I was not able to interview the author to assess his stand on my assertions. The results of my study illustrate that Ole Kulet has greatly been influenced by the civil society organizations and that the civil society organizations have influenced fictional writing in Kenya. I recommend that more studies be done to evaluate how civil society organizations have compromised artistic creativity in Kenya.