Ngugi wa Thiong'o
By: Simon Gikandi
Series: Cambridge studies in African and Caribbean literature -- 8
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521119016
Subjects: Kenya in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Imperialism in literature
Description: A study of the works of Kenyan dramatist and novelist Ngugu wa Thiong'o explores the development of his major novels and plays against a background of colonialsim and its aftermath in Kenya.
Notes: Originally published: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: reading texts and contexts; title: Narrative and nationalist desire: early short stories and The river between; title: Educating colonial subjects: the "emergency stories" and Weep not, child; title: Representing decolonization: A grain of wheat; title: The poetics of cultural production: the later short stories and Petals of blood; title: Performance and power: the plays; title: The prisonhouse of culture: Detained and Devil on the cross; title: The work of art in exile: Matigari; title: Writing freedom: essays and criticism; title: Conclusion