05000nam 2200649 a 450 991082783260332120240417020921.00-585-42561-21-84964-535-3(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 narrating the nation /James Ogude1st ed.London ;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""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.Historical fiction, Kenyan (English)History and criticismLiterature and historyAfricaHistory20th centuryLiterature and historyKenyaHistory20th centuryHistorical fiction, Kenyan (English)History and criticism.Literature and historyHistoryLiterature and historyHistory823Ogude James667964MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827832603321Ngugi's novels and African history1318192UNINA