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Zusatztext 'This is a groundbreaking reassessment of Ngugi as a postcolonial intellectual and critical thinker. While he is widely celebrated as a novelist! this volume reveals the extent and depth of his theoretical interventions into postcolonial politics! aesthetics and criticism.' Bill Ashcroft! University of New South Wales! Australia Informationen zum Autor Oliver Lovesey is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Canada, editor of Approaches to Teaching the Works of NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o (2012) and author of NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o (2000). He is also the editor, most recently, of Victorian Social Activists’ Novels (2011) and author of Postcolonial George Eliot (forthcoming). Klappentext Oliver Lovesey examines the conundrum of the postcolonial intellectual, a central yet critically overlooked figure in the postcolonial project. He focuses on Ngägäwa Thiong'o within his cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts, primarily with respect to his non-fictional prose writings, including his neglected early journalism and his most recent autobiographical and theoretical work. Lovesey argues for Ngägäwa Thiong'o position as a major postcolonial theorist who helped establish postcolonial studies. Zusammenfassung Addressing a neglected dimension in postcolonial scholarship, the author examines the figure of the postcolonial intellectual as repeatedly evoked by the fabled troika of Said, Spivak, and Bhabha and by members of the pan-African diaspora such as Cabral, Fanon, and James. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: The postcolonial intellectual; The decolonization of James NgÅ©gÄ©: early journalism; Diasporic Pan-Africanism: the Caribbean connection; NgÅ©gÄ©’s ’aesthetics of decolonization’: return to the source; Postcolonial intellectual self-fashioning; The global intellectual: conclusion; Works cited; Index.
