Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context offers a compelling and comprehensive reading of the various contexts pivotal to Ngugi wa Thiong'o's practice as a writer. Ngugi drew a complex link between his role as a writer and the contexts within which his works are produced. The desire to come to terms with the past and the shifting historical process in his country is evident throughout his work. The volume shows that, for a writer whose work is steeped in biographical life experiences and historical events, context is even more special. It must be recovered through imagination and re-imagined as part of Ngugi's self-writing. One of the aims of this volume is to displace the notion of context as a reified site of retrieval and self-evident knowledge, and also to see how this sense of context offers readers of his vital writings new and disruptive ways of re-reading Ngugi's texts.
| ISBN: | 9781009524469 |
| Publication date: | 30th June 2026 |
| Author: | James Ogude |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 375 pages |
| Series: | Literature in Context |
| Genres: |
Literary reference works Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context offers a compelling and comprehensive reading of the various contexts pivotal to Ngugi wa Thiong'o's practice as a writer. Ngugi drew a complex link between his role as a writer and the contexts within which his works are produced. The desire to come to terms with the past and the shifting historical process in his country is evident throughout his work. The volume shows that, for a writer whose work is steeped in biographical life experiences and historical events, context is even more special. It must be recovered through imagination and re-imagined as part of Ngugi's self-writing. One of the aims of this volume is to displace the notion of context as a reified site of retrieval and self-evident knowledge, and also to see how this sense of context offers readers of his vital writings new and disruptive ways of re-reading Ngugi's texts.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o in Context features in the following genres: Literary reference works, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o in Context is available in Hardback
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o in Context was written by James Ogude and published by Cambridge University Press
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o in Context has 375 pages
Yes it is part of Literature in Context series
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