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Author Amoko, Apollo Obonyo.

Title Postcolonialism in the wake of the Nairobi revolution [electronic resource] : Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the idea of African literature / by Apollo Obonyo Amoko.

Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xi, 204 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Ngugi wa Thiongo, 1938- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Ngugi wa Thiongo, 1938- -- Influence.
African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Nationalism and literature -- Africa.
Postcolonialism -- Africa.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Africa -- In literature.
Kenya -- In literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780230105461 (alk. paper)
9780230113985 (e-book)

 
    
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