LEADER 05000nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910827832603321 005 20240417020921.0 010 $a0-585-42561-2 010 $a1-84964-535-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000520706 035 $a(EBL)3386103 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000211152 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11184986 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000211152 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10291886 035 $a(PQKB)10232742 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3386103 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3386103 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr5000384 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL987579 035 $a(OCoLC)923330594 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000520706 100 $a19990322d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNgugi's novels and African history $enarrating the nation /$fJames Ogude 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aSterling, Va. $cPluto Press$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7453-1436-8 311 $a0-7453-1431-7 327 $a""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 "" 327 $a""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 "" 327 $a""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 "" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a"" oathing 41"" 330 $aNgugi 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. 606 $aHistorical fiction, Kenyan (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and history$zAfrica$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiterature and history$zKenya$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aHistorical fiction, Kenyan (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 676 $a823 700 $aOgude$b James$0667964 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827832603321 996 $aNgugi's novels and African history$91318192 997 $aUNINA