Postcolonialism in the wake of the Nairobi revolution : Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the idea of African literature
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Postcolonialism in the wake of the Nairobi revolution : Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the idea of African literature
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Includes bibliography: p. [191]-196
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship between such institutions of literature and the processes of nationalist legitimization and between colonial and postcolonial school cultures and national cultures.
Table of Contents
Pitfalls of Postcolonial Intellectual Consciousness: African Literature in the Wake of the Nairobi Revolution Early Fictions of School Culture: The River Between and Weep Not, Child: 48- 106 Later Fictions of School Culture: Petals of Blood and Devil on the Cross Theaters of School Culture: Festac, the Kenya National Theatre and the Kamiriithu Theatre Project, The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, I Will Marry When I Want and Kenneth Watene's Dedan Kimathi Between Irony and Tragedy: Chiekh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure in Ambiguous Adventure
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