Postcolonialism in the wake of the Nairobi revolution : Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the idea of African literature
by
Amoko, Apollo Obonyo.
Title
:
Postcolonialism in the wake of the Nairobi revolution : Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the idea of African literature
Author
:
Amoko, Apollo Obonyo.
ISBN
:
9780230105461
Personal Author
:
Amoko, Apollo Obonyo.
Edition
:
1st ed.
Publication Information
:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Physical Description
:
xi, 204 p. ; 22 cm.
General Note
:
Formerly CIP.
Contents
:
Introduction: pitfalls of postcolonial intellectual consciousness: African literature in the wake of the Nairobi revolution -- Early fictions of school culture: The river between and Weep not, child -- Later fictions of school culture: Petals of blood and Devil on the cross -- Theaters of school culture: festac, the Kenya national theater and the Kamiriithu theatre project, the trial of Dedan Kimathi, I will marry when I want and Kenneth Watene's Dedan Kimathi -- Conclusion: between irony and tragedy: Chiekh Hamidou Kane's ambiguous adventure in Ambiguous adventure.
Personal Subject
:
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938--Criticism and interpretation.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938--Influence.
Subject Term
:
African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Nationalism and literature -- Africa.
Postcolonialism -- Africa.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Geographic Term
:
Africa -- In literature.
Kenya -- In literature.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025554581 | 823.914 A523P 2010 | 1 |