Ngugi's novels and African history : narrating the nation

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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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Ogude, James
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999
Subjects:
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, > 1938- > Knowledge > History.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, > 1938- > Fictional works.
Historical fiction, Kenyan (English) > History and criticism.
Literature and history > Africa > History > 20th century.
Literature and history > Kenya > History > 20th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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

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