Nicholls, Brendon

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

828.996 NGU/NIC