Postcolonialism in the wake of the Nairobi revolution Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the idea of African literature
Title:
Postcolonialism in the wake of the Nairobi revolution Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the idea of African literature
Author:
Amoko, Apollo Obonyo.
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Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Physical Description:
xi, 204 p.
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.
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