Postcolonialism in the Wake of the Nairobi Revolution [electronic resource] : Ngugi wa Thiong’o and the Idea of African Literature /
Amoko, A.author.
This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship between such institutions of literature and the processes of nationalist legitimization and between colonial and postcolonial school cultures and national cultures.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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 -- Theaters of school culture: festac, the Kenya national theater and the Kamiriithu theatre project, the trial of Dedan Kimathi, I will marry when I want and Kenneth Watene's Dedan Kimathi -- Conclusion: between irony and tragedy: Chiekh Hamidou Kane's ambiguous adventure in Ambiguous adventure.
This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship between such institutions of literature and the processes of nationalist legitimization and between colonial and postcolonial school cultures and national cultures.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1938-
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1938-
Africa—History.
Africa—Politics and government.
Ethnology—Africa.
Sociology.
Ethnology.
African History.
African Politics.
African Culture.
Sociology, general.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.