Oliver Lovesey

The Postcolonial Intellectual

Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context

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Produktbeschreibung

Addressing a neglected dimension in postcolonial scholarship, the author examines the figure of the postcolonial intellectual as repeatedly evoked by the fabled troika of Said, Spivak, and Bhabha and by members of the pan-African diaspora such as Cabral, Fanon, and James.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781409409007
• ISBN-10: 1409409007
• Artikelnr.: 45342890

Autorenporträt

Oliver Lovesey is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Canada, editor of Approaches to Teaching the Works of NgÅ(c)gÄ(c) wa Thiong'o (2012) and author of NgÅ(c)gÄ(c) wa Thiong'o (2000). He is also the editor, most recently, of Victorian Social Activists' Novels (2011) and author of Postcolonial George Eliot (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: The postcolonial intellectual
The decolonization of James NgÅ(c)gÄ(c): early journalism
Diasporic Pan-Africanism: the Caribbean connection
NgÅ(c)gÄ(c)'s 'aesthetics of decolonization': return to the source
Postcolonial intellectual self-fashioning
The global intellectual: conclusion
Works cited
Index.