Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Resistance
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 13 March 2024
- ISBN 9781032254609
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages234 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English 495
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Short description:
It explores the complex of ways in which Ngugi wa Thiong’o wrestles with issues of nationalism and ethnicity through his politically subversive and creatively intense literary texts.
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As a part of Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literature, the book explores the complex of ways in which Ngugi wa Thiong’o wrestles with issues of nationalism and ethnicity through his politically subversive and creatively intense literary texts. His novels and plays are fraught with his anxiety, resistance, and defiance concerning Gikuyu ethnicity, Kenyan nationalism, and a curious, globalectic imaginary. In this way, the book re- appreciates Ngugi offering scholarly insights into the present debates over identity politics as well as aesthetics that animate contemporary research in postcolonial studies, world literature, and African studies across the globe.
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Introduction
Section One: Why Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Again!)?
Section Two: Conceptualising “Nationalism” and “Ethnicity”
Section Three: Nation- Building, Political Tribalism, and Moral Ethnicity in Kenya/Africa
Section Four: About the Book
1 The Phase of Anxiety (1950s– 1960s)
Section One: Gendered Anxieties in The Black Hermit
Section Two: Clitoridectomal Anxieties in The River Between
Section Three: Anxieties, Conflicts, and Violence in Weep Not, Child
2 The Phase of Polemics (1960s– 1970s)
Section One: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and the Trials of the Unheroic in A Grain of Wheat
Section Two: Moral Ethnicity and Marxist Revolution in Petals of Blood
Section Three: Marxism and Mythopoeia in The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
3 The Phase of Defiance (1970s onwards)
Section One: Subaltern Self- Mastery and Dialogic Resistance in I Will Marry When I Want
Section Two: Myth, Ethnicity, and Plurality in Devil on the Cross and Matigari
Section Three: Globalectic Defiance in Wizard of the Crow
Conclusion
The Outcome: A Pursuit of Globalectics
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