Ngugi Wa Thiong'O

In the Name of the Mother

Reflections on Writers and Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

Alongside the impact of his early novels and plays, and his more recent memoirs, these essays give new insights into Ngugi's and other writers' responses to colonialism - there is new material here for students of literature, politics and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: JAMES CURREY
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 217g
• ISBN-13: 9781847010841
• ISBN-10: 1847010849
• Artikelnr.: 38087171

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Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Birth of a Literature: Heinemann, African Writers Series & I In the
Name of the Mother: Lamming & the Cultural Significance of 'Mother Country'
in the Decolonisation Process Freeing the Imagination: Lamming's Aesthetics
of Decolonisation Nation in the Underground: Alex la Guma In the Fog at the
Seasons' End Dialectics of Hope: Sembene's God's Bits of Wood Voices &
Icons: The Neocolonial in Emergent African Cinema Birth of a Nation:
Narrating the National Question in Pepetela's Mayombe Orature, Class
Struggle & Nationalism: Vieiera's Luaanda & Domingos Xavier Writing a
National Agender: Patriarchy as Domestic Colonialism in Tsitsi
Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions