Ngugi wa Thiong’o 1st Edition by Simon Gikandi ISBN 0521119014 978-0521119016

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ISBN 10: 0521119014 

ISBN 13: 978-0521119016

Author: Simon Gikandi

Simon Gikandi’s study offers a comprehensive analysis of all the published works of the influential Kenyan dramatist, novelist, and critic Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Gikandi traces Ngugi’s literary career from the 1960s through to his role in shaping a radical culture in East Africa in the 1970s and his imprisonment and exile in the 1980s. Focusing also on Ngugi’s engagement with nationalism, empire and postcoloniality, this book provides fresh insight into the author’s life and the historical and cultural context surrounding his work.

Table of contents:

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

10. Conclusion

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