Nadine Gordimer's anti-Apartheid novel 'July's People' is a powerful example of resistance writing, and still continues to unsettle easy assumptions about power, race, and gender. This guide to the book offers an accessible introduction to the text and its contexts, as well as a critical history of its reception.

This is the first comprehensive book-length study of gender politics in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction. Brendon Nicholls argues that mechanisms of gender subordination are strategically crucial to Ngugi's ideological project from his first novel to his most recent one. Nicholls describes the historical pressures that lead Ngugi to represent women as he does, and shows that the novels themselves are symptomatic of the cultural conditions that they address. Reading Ngugi's fiction in terms of its Gikuyu allusions and references, a gendered narrative of history emerges that creates transgressive...