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Author Ogude, James

Title Ngugi's novels and African history : narrating the nation / James Ogude
Published London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 183 pages)
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-175) and index
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Subject Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938- -- Knowledge -- History
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938- -- Fictional works
SUBJECT Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938- fast
Subject Historical fiction, Kenyan (English) -- History and criticism
Literature and history -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
Literature and history -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
History
Criticism and interpretation
Historical fiction, Kenyan (English)
Literature and history
Romans.
Africa
Kenya
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585425612
9780585425610
9781849645355
1849645353