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Postcolonialism in the Wake of the Nairobi Revolution

Ngugi wa Thiong’o and the Idea of African Literature

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  1. Apollo Obonyo Amoko
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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Pitfalls of Postcolonial Intellectual Consciousness: African Literature in the Wake of the Nairobi Revolution

    • Apollo Obonyo Amoko
    Pages 1-27

  3. Early Fictions of School Culture: The River Between and Weep Not, Child

    • Apollo Obonyo Amoko
    Pages 29-66

  4. Later Fictions of School Culture: Petals of Blood and Devil on the Cross

    • Apollo Obonyo Amoko
    Pages 67-107

  5. The Theaters of School Culture: Imaging the Nation in Ngugi’s Plays

    • Apollo Obonyo Amoko
    Pages 109-158

  6. Conclusion: Between Irony and Tragedy: Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure in Ambiguous Adventure

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    Pages 159-178

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 179-204
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This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship between such institutions of literature and the processes of nationalist legitimization and between colonial and postcolonial school cultures and national cultures.

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"This study should be welcomed by anyone interested in postcolonial theory or African studies. Highly recommended." - CHOICE

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APOLLO AMOKO Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Florida, USA.

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