Critical Essays on Ngũgĩ Wa Thiongʼo

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Peter Nazareth
Twayne Publishers, 2000 - Literary Criticism - 341 pages
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contemporaries -- Original essays, new translations and revisions commissioned especially for the series -- Previously unpublished materials such as interviews, lost letters and manuscript fragments -- A bibliography of the subject's writings and interviews -- A name and subject index The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.

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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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