Postcolonialism in the wake of the Nairobi revolution
Subtitle: Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the idea of African literature
By: Apollo Obonyo Amoko
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780230105461
Subjects: African literature; Nationalism and literature; Influence; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; In literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Postcolonialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-196) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: pitfalls of postcolonial intellectual consciousness: African literature in the wake of the Nairobi revolution; title: Early fictions of school culture: The river between and Weep not, child; title: Later fictions of school culture: Petals of blood and Devil on the cross; title: The theaters of school culture: imaging the nation in Ngugi's plays; title: Conclusion: between irony and tragedy: Cheikh Hamidou Kane's ambiguous adventure in Ambiguous adventure.