04838nam 2200637 a 450 991045273960332120200520144314.00-585-42561-21-84964-535-3(CKB)1000000000520706(EBL)3386103(SSID)ssj0000211152(PQKBManifestationID)11184986(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000211152(PQKBWorkID)10291886(PQKB)10232742(MiAaPQ)EBC3386103(Au-PeEL)EBL3386103(CaPaEBR)ebr5000384(CaONFJC)MIL987579(OCoLC)923330594(EXLCZ)99100000000052070619990322d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNgugi's novels and African history[electronic resource] narrating the nation /James OgudeLondon ;Sterling, Va. Pluto Press19991 online resource (192 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7453-1436-8 0-7453-1431-7 ""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 """"Narrating the Community and the Elite in Ngugi s Earlier Novels """"The Return of Heroism and the Crisis of the African Revolution ""; ""Ngugi's Heroes: The Example of Karega in Petals of Blood ""; ""Imagining the Subaltern Under Conditions of Marginality and Displacement ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""History is Subversive ""; ""Notes ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Chapter 1 ""; ""Chapter 2 ""; ""Chapter 3 ""; ""Chapter 4 ""; ""Chapter 5 ""; ""Chapter 6 ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Works by Ngugi ""; ""Articles and Books ""; ""Newspapers and Magazines ""; ""Index""""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"""" oathing 41""Historical fiction, Kenyan (English)History and criticismLiterature and historyAfricaHistory20th centuryLiterature and historyKenyaHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Historical fiction, Kenyan (English)History and criticism.Literature and historyHistoryLiterature and historyHistory823Ogude James667964MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452739603321Ngugi's novels and African history1318192UNINA