Ngugi wa Thiongi'o

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Simon, Gikandi	-
dc.contributor.editor	Professor Abiola Irele	-
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-12T08:23:23Z	-
dc.date.available	2018-10-12T08:23:23Z	-
dc.date.issued	2009	-
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-521-11901-6	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9753	-
dc.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	-
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Cambridge	en_US
dc.subject	Ngaga wa Thiong'o, 1938-Criticism and interpretation	en_US
dc.title	Ngugi wa Thiongi'o	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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