Ngugi wa Thiong'o
$133.53
- Paperback
344 pages
- Release Date
3 September 2009
Summary
Kenyan dramatist and novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o is a hugely influential African writer respected not only for his creative work but also for his criticism of wider cultural issues - issues such as nation and narration, power and performance, language and identity, empire and postcoloniality. Simon Gikandi’s study, first published in 2000, offers a comprehensive analysis of all Ngugi’s published work and explores the development of the major novels and plays against a background of colonialism…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521119016 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0521119014 |
| Author: | Simon Gikandi |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 3 September 2009 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature |
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Critics Review
“Solid, mainstream postcolonial criticism, Gikandias book should be [in] all libraries supporting serious study of postcolonialism and/or African literature and history.” Choice
“Gikandi has done historians a favor with this wide-ranging book.” International Journal of African History
“Solid, mainstream postcolonial criticism, Gikandias book should be [in] all libraries supporting serious study of postcolonialism and/or African literature and history.” Choice
“Gikandi is one of the most erudite and insightful critics we have … and, with his latest offering, he may very well have produced the best extant monograph on Ngugi wa Thiong’o.” Research in African Literature
“Gikandi has written a scholarly bokk on an important African writer that all serious scholars of Ngugi and of African literature will find indispensable…this book is the best so far on Ngugi wa Thiong’o…Gikandi’s book is a first-rate work on Ngugi and his place in the African literary canon.” World Literature Today Nov 2001
About The Author
Simon Gikandi
SIMON GIKANDI is Robert Hayden Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His books include Reading the African Novel, Reading Chinua Achebe, Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature, Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism, and Ngugi wa Thiong’o. He is the general editor of The Encyclopedia of African Literature.
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