1st Edition
Ngugi wa Thiong’o Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Resistance
Introduction
Section One: Why Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Again!)?
Section Two: Conceptualising “Nationalism” and “Ethnicity”
Section Three: Nation- Building, Political Tribalism, and Moral Ethnicity in Kenya/Africa
Section Four: About the Book
1 The Phase of Anxiety (1950s– 1960s)
Section One: Gendered Anxieties in The Black Hermit
Section Two: Clitoridectomal Anxieties in The River Between
Section Three: Anxieties, Conflicts, and Violence in Weep Not, Child
2 The Phase of Polemics (1960s– 1970s)
Section One: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and the Trials of the Unheroic in A Grain of Wheat
Section Two: Moral Ethnicity and Marxist Revolution in Petals of Blood
Section Three: Marxism and Mythopoeia in The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
3 The Phase of Defiance (1970s onwards)
Section One: Subaltern Self- Mastery and Dialogic Resistance in I Will Marry When I Want
Section Two: Myth, Ethnicity, and Plurality in Devil on the Cross and Matigari
Section Three: Globalectic Defiance in Wizard of the Crow
Conclusion
The Outcome: A Pursuit of Globalectics
Biography
Amitayu Chakraborty works as Assistant Professor of English at Durgapur Women’s College. He did his PhD from Visva- Bharati in 2017. His doctoral dissertation was on Ngugi wa Thiong’o. He has a keen interest in postcolonial studies.
