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\nKenyan dramatist and novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o is re-garded as one of the most influential African writers today,not only for his creative work but also for his criticism ofwider cultural issues -isues such as nation and narration,power and performance,language and identity,empire andpostcoloniality.Simon Gikandi's study offers a comprehen-sive analysis of all Ngugi's published work and explores thedevelopment of the major novels and plays against a back-ground of colonialism and decolonization in Kenya.Gikandiplaces the works in a context that examines the way theyengage with the changing history of Africa.Tracing Ngugi'scareer from the 196os through to his role in shaping a radicalculture in East Africa in the I97os and his imprisonment andexile in the 1g8os,this book provides fresh insight into theauthor's life and the historic events that produced his work.  \nSimon Gikandi is Professor of English Language and Litera-ture at the University of Michigan.He was born in Kenyaand educated there,the United Kingdom and the UnitedStates.His previous books include Reading Chinua Achebe:Language and Ideology in Fiction(1991),Writing in Limbo:Moderm-ism and Caribbean Literature(1992),and Maps of Englishness:Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism(1996).He is editor(with Abiola Irele)of the forthcoming Cambridge History ofAfrican and Caribbean Literature.  \n# CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN AFRICAN AND CARIBBEANLITERATURE\n\nSeries editor:Professor Abiola Irele,Ohio State University  \nEach volume in this unique series of critical studies will offer a compre-hensive and in-depth account of the whole ceure of one individiaul writerfrom Africa or the Caribbean,in such a way that the book may beconsidered a complete coverage of the writer's expression up to the timethe study is undertaken.Attention will be devoted primarily to the worksthemselves-their significant themes,governing ideas and formal pro-cedures,biographical and other background information will thus beemployed secondarily,to illuminate these aspects of the writer's workwhere necessary.  \nThe emergence in the twentieth century of black literature in theUnited States,the Caribbean,and Africa as a distinct corpus of imagin-ative work represents one of the most notable developments in worldliterature in modern times.This series has been established to meet theneeds of this growing area of study.It is hoped that it will not onlycontribute to a wider understanding of the humanistic significance ofmodern literature from Africa and the Caribbean through the scholarlypresentation of the work of the major writers,but also offer a widerframework for the ongoing debates about the problems of interpretationwithin the disciplines concerned.  \nAlready published  \nChinua Achebe,by C.L.InnesNadine Gordimer,by Dominic HeadEdouard Glissant,byJ.Michael DashV.S.Naipaul,by Fawzia MustafaAimé Césaire,by Gregson Davis  \nJ.M.Coetzee,by Dominic HeadJean Rhys,by Elaine Savory  \nNGUGI WA THIONG'O  \nSIMON GIKANDI  \nCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nCambridge,New York,Melbourne,Madrid,Cape Town,Singapore,São Paulo,Delhi  \nCambridge University PressThe Edinburgh Building,Cambridge CB28RU,UK  \nPublished in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press,New York  \nwww.cambridge.orgInformation on this title:www.cambridge.org/9780521119016  \n◎ Cambridge University Press 2000  \nThis publication is in copyright.Subject to statutory exceptionand to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements,no reproduction of any part may take place without the writtenpermission of Cambridge University Press.  \nFirst published 2000Reprinted 2002This digitally printed version 2009  \nA catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloguing in Publication dataGikandi,Simon  \nNgugi wa Thiongi'o /Simon Gikandi.  \np.cm.-(Cambridge studies in African and Cari","cbCaieWXtY6BjPMx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieWXtY6BjPMx","pdf",10503409,341,"English","# Preface\n# Chronology\n# Introduction: reading texts and contexts\n# Narrative and nationalist desire: early short stories and The River Between\n# Educating colonial subjects: the “emergency stories” and Weep Not, Child\n# Representing decolonization: A Grain of Wheat\n# The poetics of cultural production: the later short stories and Petals of Blood\n# Performance and power: the plays\n# The prisonhouse of culture: Detained and Deril on the Cross\n# The work of art in exile: Matigari\n# Writing freedom: essays and criticism\n# Conclusion\n# Notes\n# Bibliography\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the focus of Simon Gikandi’s study of Ngugi wa Thiong'o?\",\"answer\":\"The study provides a comprehensive analysis of Ngugi’s published work, especially the major novels and plays, and explains how their themes and formal procedures relate to historical contexts.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the 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