This is the first comprehensive book-length study of gender politics in Ngugi wa Thiong's fiction. Brendon Nicholls argues that the mechanisms of gender subordination are strategically crucial to Ngugi's ideological project, but that his fiction also creates transgressive spaces for women. Nicholls proposes a strategy of 'performative reading' that offers an ethical basis for analyzing cultural difference and critiquing cultural practices, while avoiding both cultural imperialism and cultural relativism.
This is the first comprehensive book-length study of gender politics in Ngugi wa Thiong's fiction. Brendon Nicholls argues that the mechanisms of gender subordination are strategically crucial to Ngugi's ideological project, but that his fiction also creates transgressive spaces for women. Nicholls proposes a strategy of 'performative reading' that offers an ethical basis for analyzing cultural difference and critiquing cultural practices, while avoiding both cultural imperialism and cultural relativism.
Brendon Nicholls is a Lecturer in African and Postcolonial Literatures in the School of English, University of Leeds. He was Deputy Co-Director of the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies.
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Contents: Introduction A topography of 'woman' Clitoridectomy and Gikuyu nationalism The landscape of insurgency Reading against the grain (of wheat) Paternity, illegitimacy and intertextuality The neocolony as a prostituted economy Conclusion - prostituting translation: an ethics of postcolonial reading Bibliography Index.
Contents: Introduction A topography of 'woman' Clitoridectomy and Gikuyu nationalism The landscape of insurgency Reading against the grain (of wheat) Paternity, illegitimacy and intertextuality The neocolony as a prostituted economy Conclusion - prostituting translation: an ethics of postcolonial reading Bibliography Index.
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