Ngugi's novels and African history : narrating the nation /
Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one of Africa's most controversial and renowned literary figures. This comprehensive study explores the relationship between history and narrative in his novels.
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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London ; Sterling, Va. :
Pluto Press
1999.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt18fs3ww |
Mục lục:
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Writing Back and the Restoration of a Community/ Nation
- Nationalism, Ethnicity and Individualism
- Manufacturing Nationalism and the East African Experience
- The Postcolonial Phase
- Tracing Ngugi s Ideological Shift and Politics of Interpretation
- 1 Ngugi's Concept of History
- The Contradictions of Imagining the Nation in Earlier Works
- Deviation from the Standard Nationalist Portrayal of Guerrilla War
- The Later Novels
- Suppression and Silences
- Dependency Theory and Class Dynamics
- 2 The Changing Nature of Allegory in Ngugi s Novels Allegory in Ngugi's Earlier Texts
- Allegory and Postcolonial Power Relations
- Allegorical Satire and the Grotesque Image of the Body
- Ngugi's Textual Counter-discourse
- 3 Character Portrayal in Ngugi's Novels
- The Overdetermined Narrative Structure and the Victim Type in the Later Novels
- The Individualised Character: The Intellectual/ Artist Type
- 4 The Use of Popular Forms and the Search for Relevance
- The Use of Oral Tradition in Ngugi's Earlier Novels
- Redefining Oral Tradition in the Agikuyu Novel The Interface Between Orality and the Written
- The Fantastic, Rumour and Biblical Allusions
- Ngugi's Achievement
- 5 Allegory, Romance and the Nation: Women as Allegorical Figures in Ngugi s Novels
- Romantic Relationships as Allegorical Tropes
- The Portrayal of Women in the Earlier Novels
- Romance and the Portrayal of Women in the Later Novels
- The Problem of Women as Victims: Wanja in Petals of Blood
- Conclusion
- 6 Ngugi's Portrayal of the Community, Heroes and the Oppressed
- Abdulla [Petals of Blood] 29
- 30
- 31
- 53-4
- Achebe, Chinua
- 1
- 83
- Agikuyu community
- 16
- 135
- identity 41
- isolation 20
- land ownership 19-20
- land ownership 21
- meaning of names 59
- myth of origin 7
- myth of origin 17
- myth of origin 18
- myth of origin 21
- myth of origin 47
- myth of origin 88-90
- myth of origin 110
- mythology 14
- mythology 23
- mythology 46
- mythology 51
- mythology 88-91
- mythology 154