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Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Simon Gikandi
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Frontmatter
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Preface (page ix)
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Chronology (page xi)
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1 Introduction: reading texts and contexts (page 1)
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2 Narrative and nationalist desire: early short stories and The River Between (page 39)
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3 Educating colonial subjects: the "emergency stories" and Weep Not, Child (page 71)
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4 Representing decolonization: A Grain of Wheat (page 98)
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5 The poetics of cultural production: the later short stories and Petals of Blood (page 128)
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6 Performance and power: the plays (page 160)
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7 The prisonhouse of culture: Detained and Devil on the Cross (page 195)
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8 The work of art in exile: Matigari (page 223)
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9 Writing freedom: essays and criticism (page 247)
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Conclusion (page 286)
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Notes (page 293)
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Bibliography (page 317)
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Index (page 325)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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IJAHS | 34.3 (2001): 680-682 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3097577 |
CJAS | 36.2 (2002): 380-382 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4107218 |
Citable Link
Published: c2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 9781139085717 (ebook)
- 9780521480062 (hardcover)
- 9780521119016 (paper)