Ngugi wa Thiong'o, gender, and the ethics of postcolonial reading text
by Brendon Nicholls
- Farnham Ashgate 2010
- 213p. Hbk
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Topography of woman -- Clitoridectomy and Gikuyu nationalism -- Landscape of insurgency -- Reading against the grain (of wheat) -- Paternity, illegitimacy and intertextuality -- Neocolony as a prostituted economy -- Prostituting translation: an ethics of postcolonial reading.
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Gender identity in literature Postcolonialism in literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938- - Criticism and interpretation