1st Edition
The Postcolonial Intellectual Ngugi wa Thiong�o in Context
By Oliver Lovesey
Copyright 2015
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Addressing a neglected dimension in postcolonial scholarship, Oliver Lovesey examines the figure of the postcolonial intellectual as repeatedly evoked by the fabled troika of Said, Spivak, and Bhabha and by members of the pan-African diaspora such as Cabral, Fanon, and James. Lovesey’s primary focus is NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o, one of the greatest writers of post-independence Africa. NgÅ©gÄ© continues... Read more
Contents: The postcolonial intellectual; The decolonization of James NgÅ©gÄ©: early journalism; Diasporic Pan-Africanism: the Caribbean connection; NgÅ©gÄ©’s ’aesthetics of decolonization’: return to the source; Postcolonial intellectual self-fashioning; The global intellectual: conclusion; Works cited; Index.
Biography
Oliver Lovesey is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan, Canada, editor of Approaches to Teaching the Works of NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o (2012) and author of NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o (2000). He is also the editor, most recently, of Victorian Social Activists’ Novels (2011) and author of Postcolonial George Eliot (forthcoming).
'This is a groundbreaking reassessment of Ngugi as a postcolonial intellectual and critical thinker. While he is widely celebrated as a novelist, this volume reveals the extent and depth of his theoretical interventions into postcolonial politics, aesthetics and criticism.' Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales, Australia
