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.


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