Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Bibliographic Information
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
（Contemporary world writers / series editor, John Thieme）
Manchester University Press, c1999
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 3 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Ngugi is one of the most important novelists on the contemporary world stage, and someone whose name has for many become synonymous with cultural controversy and political struggle.
Patrick William's lucid analysis offers the most up-to-date study of Ngugi's writing, including his most rcent collection of essays. Focusing on important aspects of Ngugi's work which critics have hitherto ignored, and drawing on a wide range of relevant theoretical perspectives, this study examines the growing complexity of Ngugi's accounts of the history of colonised and post-colonial Kenya. The cultural and anti-imperial politics on Ngugi's experimentation with language and form in both novel and drama is discussed, including the important role of culture as a source of historical memory and strategies of resistance for oppressed groups.
All the novels and the major plays are studies in detail, and in addition a substantial chapter examines Ngugi's contribution in the area of non-fiction. -- .
Table of Contents
- Part 1: contexts and intertexts. Part 2: narrating the nation/constructing the community - introduction
- the river between
- weep not, child
- a grain of wheat. Part 3: the struggle betrayed - petals of blood
- devil on the cross
- matigari. Part 4: essays. Part 5: critical overview and conclusion.
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