Ngugi wa Thiong'o, gender, and the ethics of postcolonial reading
By: by Brendon Nicholls.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754658252; 9780754699187
Subjects: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, -- 1938- -- Criticism and interpretation; Gender identity in literature; Postcolonialism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Topography of woman; title: Clitoridectomy and Gikuyu nationalism; title: Landscape of insurgency; title: Reading against the grain (of wheat); title: Paternity, illegitimacy and intertextuality; title: Neocolony as a prostituted economy; title: Prostituting translation: an ethics of postcolonial reading.