Simon Gikandi, Gikandi Simon

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive study of all the works of Kenyan dramatist and novelist, Ngugu wa Thiong'o.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780521119016
• ISBN-10: 0521119014
• Artikelnr.: 26573051

Inhaltsangabe

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: 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.