Title:	Ngugi wa Thiongi'o
Authors:	Simon, Gikandi Professor Abiola Irele
Keywords:	Ngaga wa Thiong'o, 1938-Criticism and interpretation
Issue Date:	2009
Publisher:	Cambridge
Description:	This was a book that I resisted writing for both personal and intellectual reasons. Although separated by a generation, Ngugi and I share a common colonial and postcolonial background, one whose most defining characteristics are the "state of emergency" declared by the British government in Kenya in 1952, the euphoria of independence in the 1960s, the emergence of the student democratic movement at the University of Nairobi in the 1970s, and the consolidation of the undemocratic postcolonial state in the 1980s. Given this background, I felt, for a long time, that I did not have enough distance from Ngugi's works to be able to develop the kind of systematic critique of his works that I wanted. At the same time, however, I felt that more than any other African writer Ngugi needed the kind of sustained critique that would take his readers beyond the simple politics of identity that have come to dominate so much postcolonial theory and criticism
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9753
ISBN:	978-0-521-11901-6
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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