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Alina Rinkanya , University of Nairobi
Alina N. Rinkanya is an Associate Professor at the Department of Literature, University of Nairobi; she teaches European, Eastern African literatures, as well as courses on literature of the African diaspora. She got an BA&MA in Literature at the Leningrad State University (St. Petersburg), and Ph.D. in African literature at the Gorky Institute of World Literature (Moscow). She has published a number of articles and book chapters on East African writing, namely novel, women’s literature, poetry in sheng and code-switching. Participated in international conferences on African literature in Europe and Africa. Currently she is working on a project on Kenyan novel after the year 2000. Areas of interest: Literatures of Eastern Africa, women’s literature, comparative literary studies.
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Critical Thinking and Kenyan Women’s Novel
Alina Rinkanya
Abstract
Critical thinking, according to one of its numerous definitions, is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skilfully conceptualizing information gathered from empirical experience. This process appears to be instrumental in literary research, which in this paper will be illustrated by the example of Kenyan women’s literature.


