Ngugi wa Thiong'o

ISBN-13: 9781032254609 / Twarda / 2024 / 262 str.

Amitayu Chakraborty

Opis

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. 

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgements

 

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

References

Notes

 

Chapter One: The Phase of Anxiety (1950s-1960s)

            Section One: Gendered Anxieties in The Black Hermit

            Section Two: Clitoridectomical Anxieties in The River Between

            Section Three: Anxieties, Conflicts and Violence in Weep Not, Child

References

Notes

 

Chapter Two: 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

References

Notes

 

Chapter Three: 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 III. Section Three: Globalectic Defiance in Wizard of the Crow

References

Notes

 

The Outcome: A Pursuit of Globalectics

 

Index

 

O autorze

Amitayu Chakraborty works as Assistant Professor of English at Durgapur Women’s College. He did his PhD from Visva-Bharati in 2017. His doctoral dissertation was on Ngugi wa Thiong’o. He has a keen interest in postcolonial studies.