Critical Essays on Ngũgĩ Wa ThiongʼoPeter Nazareth The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical Essays Series. Volume editors have carefully selected critical essays that represent the full spectrum of controversies, trends and methodologies relating to each author's work. Essays include writings from the author's native country and abroad, with interpretations from the time they were writing, through the present day. Each volume includes: -- An introduction providing the reader with a lucid overview of criticism from its beginnings -- illuminating controversies, evaluating approaches and sorting out the schools of thought -- The most influential reviews and the best reprinted scholarly essays -- A section devoted exclusively to reviews and reactions by the subject's contemporaries -- Original essays, new translations and revisions commissioned especially for the series -- Previously unpublished materials such as interviews, lost letters and manuscript fragments -- A bibliography of the subject's writings and interviews -- A name and subject index The highly acclaimed African writer (Petals of Blood, A Grain of Wheat) who illuminates the struggles of Africa and the Third World by writing about his own people, the Gikuyu. |
Contents
Nature as Agency in Ngũgĩs The River Between | 48 |
Weep Not Child | 64 |
Escape or Rebel? The Case for Anticolonialist | 80 |
Copyright | |
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African Literature African writers Bob Marley Boro British characters child Chinua Achebe Christian colonial creative critics Cross culture darkness death Dedan Kimathi detention Devil Dinwiddy East African English essay European fiction fighters forces forest freedom gicaandi Gikonyo Gikuyu Grain of Wheat guilt Heinemann Howlands Ibadan ideological Ilmorog independence intellectual irony Jacobo Kamau Kampala Karanja Karega Kenya Kenyan history Kenyatta Kihika land landscape language later literary London Makerere Makererean Marley Matigari Mau Mau movement Mugo Mugo's Mumbi Munira Muthoni's Nairobi narrative Nazareth neocolonial Ngotho Ngugi Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Ngũgĩ's novels Njamba Nene Njoroge Njoroge's oppression oral literature orature peasants Penpoint people's Petals of Blood Peter Nazareth play poem political polyphony published rain reader responsibility ritual Sicherman social society song story struggle tion tradition Trial of Dedan Uganda Uhuru University village vision voice Waiyaki Wanja Warďînga Weep Western Whitman writing