ACLS Humanities E-Book: Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Gikandi, Simon.

Year: c2000.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Preface

Chronology

1 Introduction: reading texts and contexts

2 Narrative and nationalist desire: early short stories and The River Between

3 Educating colonial subjects: the "emergency stories" and Weep Not, Child

4 Representing decolonization: A Grain of Wheat

5 The poetics of cultural production: the later short stories and Petals of Blood

6 Performance and power: the plays

7 The prisonhouse of culture: Detained and Devil on the Cross

8 The work of art in exile: Matigari

9 Writing freedom: essays and criticism

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

reviews

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Title:

Ngugi wa Thiong'o : Simon Gikandi.

Author:

Gikandi, Simon

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University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
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Source Version:

Ngugi wa Thiong'o : Simon Gikandi.
Gikandi, Simon
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2000.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07588

Subject Headings:

• Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, -- 1938- -- Criticism and interpretation
• Kenya -- In literature

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