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Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Gender, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading

By: Dr Brendon Nicholls

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Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Gender, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading

By: Dr Brendon Nicholls

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.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409475697

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9781409475699

The Postcolonial Eye

White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race

By: Dr Alison Ravenscroft

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The Postcolonial Eye

White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race

By: Dr Alison Ravenscroft

Informed by theories of the visual, knowledge and desire, The Postcolonial Eye is about the 'eye' and the 'I' in contemporary Australian scenes of race. Specifically, it is about seeing, where vision is taken to be subjective and shaped by desire, and about knowing one another across the cultural divide between white and Indigenous Australia. Writing against current moves to erase this divide and to obscure difference, Alison Ravenscroft stresses that modern Indigenous cultures can be profoundly, even bewilderingly, strange and at times unknowable within the terms of 'white' cultural forms. She argues for a different ethics of looking, in particular, for aesthetic practices that allow Indigenous cultural products, especially in the literary arts, to retain their strangeness in the eyes of a white subject. The specificity of her subject matter allows Ravenscroft to deal with the broad issues of postcolonial theory and race and ethnicity without generalising. This specificity is made visible in, for example, Ravenscroft's treatment of the figuring of white desire in Aboriginal fiction, film and life-stories, and in her treatment of contemporary Indigenous cultural practices. While it is located in Australian Studies, Ravenscroft's book, in its rigorous interrogation of the dynamics of race and whiteness and engagement with European and American literature and criticism, has far-reaching implications for understanding the important question of race and vision.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409479188

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9781409479185

The Postcolonial Intellectual

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in Context

By: Dr Oliver Lovesey

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The Postcolonial Intellectual

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in Context

By: Dr Oliver Lovesey

Oliver Lovesey examines the conundrum of the postcolonial intellectual, a central yet critically overlooked figure in the postcolonial project. He focuses on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o within his cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts, primarily with respect to his non-fictional prose writings, including his neglected early journalism and his most recent autobiographical and theoretical work. Lovesey argues for Ngũgĩ’s position as a major postcolonial theorist who helped establish postcolonial studies.

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249

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409409007

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9781409409007

A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE SELECT NOVELS OF SALMAN RUSHDIE

By: Dr. Abhibunnisha Begum

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A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE SELECT NOVELS OF SALMAN RUSHDIE

By: Dr. Abhibunnisha Begum

Indian writing in English is the term which denotes the original creative writings by Indians. It is the literature originally written in English by writers including the expatriate Indian writers like Salman Rushdie. India's contribution to world literature especially of the twentieth century has been mostly in the field of fiction in English. The novels reflected realistic picture of the period to which the novelist belongs.

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Lulu.com

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0359468934

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9780359468935

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Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Gender, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Gender, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading

The Postcolonial Eye

The Postcolonial Eye

The Postcolonial Intellectual

The Postcolonial Intellectual

A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE SELECT NOVELS OF SALMAN RUSHDIE

A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE SELECT NOVELS OF SALMAN RUSHDIE

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