Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Name: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
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ISBN: 9780521480062

ISBN-10: 052148006X

ISBN-13: 9780521480062

Edition: 2000

Authors: Simon Gikandi, Abiola Irele

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Kenyan dramatist and novelist, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, is regarded as one of the most influential African writers today, not only for his creative work but also for his criticism of wider cultural issues - issues such as nation and narration, power and performance, language and identity, empire and postcoloniality. Simon Gikandi's study offers a comprehensive analysis of all Ngugi's published work and explores the development of the major novels and plays against a background of colonialism and decolonisation in Kenya. Gikandi places the works in a context that examines the way they engage with the changing history of Africa. Tracing Ngugi's career from the 1960s through to his role in shaping a…

Book details

List price: $115.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/11/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 342
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Simon Gikandi is the Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. His many books include "Writing in Limbo" and "Maps of Englishness."



Chronology



Introduction: reading texts and contexts



Narrative and nationalist desire: early short stories and The River Between



Educating colonial subjects: The 'Emergency' stories and Weep Not, Child



Representing decolonization: A Grain of Wheat



The poetics of cultural production: Petals of Blood



Performance and power: the plays



The prisonhouse of culture: Detained and Devil on the Cross



The work of art in exile: Matigari



Writing freedom: essays and criticism


Conclusion