Postcolonialism in the wake of the Nairobi revolution : Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the idea of African literature /
Amoko, Apollo Obonyo.
New York, N.Y. ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: 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 -- Later fictions of school culture: Petals of blood and Devil on the cross -- The theaters of school culture: imaging the nation in Ngugi's plays -- Conclusion: between irony and tragedy: Cheikh Hamidou Kane's ambiguous adventure in Ambiguous adventure.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1938-
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1938-
African literature
Nationalism and literature
Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism in literature.