NGUGI WA THIONG'O: TEXTS & CONTEXTS Literature Valerie Jarrett

Valerie Jarrett

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ISBN-10 : 9780375713873

NGUGI WA THIONG'O: TEXTS & CONTEXTS Literature Valerie JarrettKamiriithu has attracted considerable critical attention over the last twenty five years. In this ground breaking study of Kamiriithu, the author puts pressure on some of the assumptions driving earlier research. Moving from a savvy discussion of all extant Ngugi plays and their contexts, Ndigirigi then reconstructs Kamiriithuits aesthetics, its ideology, its politics and ultimately, its theorizingin a way that no other critic has done before. Whereas