Download PDF Ngugi wa Thiong'o Gender and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading

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Published on: 2010-02-28
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Original language: English

This is the first comprehensive book-length study of gender politics in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction. Brendon Nicholls argues that mechanisms of gender subordination are strategically crucial to Ngugi's ideological project from his first novel to his most recent one. Nicholls describes the historical pressures that lead Ngugi to represent women as he does, and shows that the novels themselves are symptomatic of the cultural conditions that they address. Reading Ngugi's fiction in terms of its Gikuyu allusions and references, a gendered narrative of history emerges that creates transgressive spaces for women. Nicholls bases his discussion on moments during the Mau Mau rebellion when women's contributions to the anticolonial struggle could not be reduced to a patriarchal narrative of Kenyan history, and this interpretive maneuver permits a reading of Ngugi's fiction that accommodates female political and sexual agency. Nicholls contributes to postcolonial theory by proposing a methodology for reading cultural difference. This methodology critiques cultural practices like clitoridectomy in an ethical manner that seeks to avoid both cultural imperialism and cultural relativisim. His strategy of 'performative reading,' that is, making the conditions of one text (such as folklore, history, or translation) active in another (for example, fiction, literary narrative, or nationalism), makes possible an ethical reading of gender and of the conditions of reading in translation. Revolutionary Fanonism: On Frantz Fanons Modification of ... Revolutionary Fanonism: On Frantz Fanons Modification of Marxism and Decolonization of Democratic Socialism The Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Website Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. She is the author of three novels Purple Hibiscus (2003) Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) and Americanah (2013 ... Clarke's Books Clarke's Bookshop (established in 1956) is situated in Cape Town South Africa and carries both new and second hand books on Southern Africa Ngg wa Thiong'o - Wikipedia Ngg wa Thiong'o signs copies of his book Wizard of the Crow at the Congress Centre in central London. Wizard was his first book in 20 years following 22 years ...
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