Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chronology
- 1 Introduction: reading texts and contexts
- 2 Narrative and nationalist desire: early short stories and The River Between
- 3 Educating colonial subjects: the “emergency stories” and Weep Not, Child
- 4 Representing decolonization: A Grain of Wheat
- 5 The poetics of cultural production: the later short stories and Petals of Blood
- 6 Performance and power: the plays
- 7 The prisonhouse of culture: Detained and Devil on the Cross
- 8 The work of art in exile: Matigari
- 9 Writing freedom: essays and criticism
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chronology
- 1 Introduction: reading texts and contexts
- 2 Narrative and nationalist desire: early short stories and The River Between
- 3 Educating colonial subjects: the “emergency stories” and Weep Not, Child
- 4 Representing decolonization: A Grain of Wheat
- 5 The poetics of cultural production: the later short stories and Petals of Blood
- 6 Performance and power: the plays
- 7 The prisonhouse of culture: Detained and Devil on the Cross
- 8 The work of art in exile: Matigari
- 9 Writing freedom: essays and criticism
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Ngugi wa Thiong'o , pp. 293 - 316Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000