Socialist Realism as Portrayed in Selected African Writing: - "Time of the Butcherbird", "I Will Marry When I Want" and "The Honourable MP"

The book looks at the socialist realist theoretical principles and how these apply to works by Alex La Guma, Ngugi wa Thiong o and Ngugi wa Mirri and Gonzo H. Musengezi. These are authors who come from different parts of Africa and whose experiences helped shape their world-views since, for Marxists, social reality is not an indistinct background out of which literature emerges or into which it blends Ann Jefferson and David Robey (1988:13) but plays a very crucial role in the composition of literary works. All the countries from which the authors in question come from were once colonized and have not, like any other such country, fully recovered from the ravages of the scourge of colonialism.

About the author

Mika Nyoni is a lecturer in English in the Department of Curriculum Studies at Great Zimbabwe University. He has taught at Secondary School, Teachers' College and University level for a period spanning two decades. He has a passion for fiction and non-fiction writing.

Product details

• Authors: Mika Nyoni
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2011
• EAN: 9783846508411
• ISBN: 978-3-8465-0841-1
• No. of pages: 56
• Subject: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric