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.
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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