Postcolonialism in the wake of the Nairobi revolution : Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the idea of African literature /

Amoko, Apollo Obonyo.

Postcolonialism in the wake of the Nairobi revolution : Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the idea of African literature / by Apollo Obonyo Amoko. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - xi, 204 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: pitfalls of postcolonial intellectual consciousness: African literature in the wake of the Nairobi revolution -- Early fictions of school culture: The river between and Weep not, child -- Later fictions of school culture: Petals of blood and Devil on the cross -- Theaters of school culture: festac, the Kenya national theater and the Kamiriithu theatre project, the trial of Dedan Kimathi, I will marry when I want and Kenneth Watene's Dedan Kimathi -- Conclusion: between irony and tragedy: Chiekh Hamidou Kane's ambiguous adventure in Ambiguous adventure.

9780230105461 (alk. paper)

2010008771


Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1938- --Criticism and interpretation.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1938- --Influence.


African literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Nationalism and literature--Africa.
Postcolonialism--Africa.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Literatura africana.
Literatura africana--Historia y crítica.
Novela africana -- Historia y crítica


Africa--In literature.
Kenya--In literature.

PL 8010.6 / A523p 2010

896.09