Ngugi wa Thiong'o /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gikandi, Simon.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series:Cambridge studies in African and Caribbean literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: reading texts and contexts
  • Narrative and nationalist desire: early short stories and The river between
  • Educating colonial subjects: the "emergency stories" and Weep not, child
  • Representing decolonization: A grain of wheat
  • The poetics of cultural production: the later short stories and Petals of blood
  • Performance and power: the plays
  • The prisonhouse of culture: Detained and Devil on the cross
  • The work of art in exile: Matigari
  • Writing freedom: essays and criticism
  • Conclusion.