The Postcolonial Intellectual: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o in Context

ISBN-13: 9780367878948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str.

Oliver Lovesey

Opis

Oliver Lovesey examines the conundrum of the postcolonial intellectual, a central yet critically overlooked figure in the postcolonial project. He focuses on Nga¨ga¨wa Thiong'o within his cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts, primarily with respect to his non-fictional prose writings, including his neglected early journalism and his most

Recenzje

'This is a groundbreaking reassessment of Ngugi as a postcolonial intellectual and critical thinker. While he is widely celebrated as a novelist, this volume reveals the extent and depth of his theoretical interventions into postcolonial politics, aesthetics and criticism.' Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales, Australia

Spis treści

Contents: The postcolonial intellectual; The decolonization of James NgÅ©gÄ©: early journalism; Diasporic Pan-Africanism: the Caribbean connection; NgÅ©gÄ©’s ’aesthetics of decolonization’: return to the source; Postcolonial intellectual self-fashioning; The global intellectual: conclusion; Works cited; Index.

O autorze

Oliver Lovesey is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Canada, editor of Approaches to Teaching the Works of NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o (2012) and author of NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o (2000). He is also the editor, most recently, of Victorian Social Activists’ Novels (2011) and author of Postcolonial George Eliot (forthcoming).