Ngugi Wa Thiong''o

Klappentext A comprehensive study of all the works of Kenyan dramatist and novelist! Ngugu wa Thiong'o. Zusammenfassung Simon Gikandi's study! first published in 2000! offers a comprehensive analysis of all the works of the influential Kenyan dramatist! novelist and critic! Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Gikandi provides fresh insight into the historical and cultural context of Ngugi's work! tracing his literary career through to his imprisonment and exile in the 1980s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; 1. Introduction: reading texts and contexts; 2. Narrative and nationalist desire: early short stories and The River Between; 3. Educating colonial subjects: the 'Emergency' stories and Weep Not, Child; 4. Representing decolonization: A Grain of Wheat; 5. The poetics of cultural production: Petals of Blood; 6. Performance and power: the plays; 7. The prisonhouse of culture: Detained and Devil on the Cross; 8. The work of art in exile: Matigari; 9. Writing freedom: essays and criticism; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Gikandi, Simon (University of Michigan Gikandi
• Assisted by: Abiola Irele (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.05.2000
• EAN: 9780521480062
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48006-2
• No. of pages: 342
• Series: Cambridge Studies in African a; Cambridge Studies in African a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures