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Postcolonialism in the Wake of the Nairobi Revolution : Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the Idea of African Literature / by A. Amoko.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amoko, Apollo Obonyo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africa--History.
- Africa.
- Africa--Politics and government.
- Ethnology--Africa.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- Sociology.
- African History.
- African Politics.
- African Culture.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Africa--In literature.
- Kenya--In literature.
- Kenya.
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-2025--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo.
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-2025--Influence.
- Local Subjects:
- African History.
- African Politics.
- African Culture.
- Sociology.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2010.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship between such institutions of literature and the processes of nationalist legitimization and between colonial and postcolonial school cultures and national cultures.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612993121
- 9781282993129
- 1282993127
- 9780230113985
- 0230113982
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