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Article: Ngugi wa Thiong'o.(Review)
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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Oliver Lovesey, Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Bernth Lindfors, ed. New York. Twayne. 2000. xiii + 164 pages. $32. ISBN 0-8057-1695-5.
THE LATEST BOOK on perhaps the single most critiqued African writer fulfills the mission statement of the Twayne series edited by Bernth Lindfors: it offers a critical introduction to the life and work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, provides new critical insights and an original point of view, and addresses readers in a way that can appeal to advanced high-school students and to university professors. After a chronology, there are five chapters: "Introduction: Kenyan History, Ngugi's Life and Career, Ngugi and Postcolonial Studies"; "(Re)Writing ...