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Article: Critical Essays on Ngugi wa Thiong'o. (Kenya).
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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Critical Essays on Ngugi wa Thiong'o Peter Nazareth, ed. New York. Twayne 2000. xi + 341 pages. $49 ISBN 0-7838-0456-3
THIS IS A VOLUME of essays written at different times and, for the most part, previously published and now carefully assembled by Peter Nazareth, whose closeness to Ngugi wa Thiong'o at both Makerere and Leeds allows him to bring fresh insight to the background and reading of the writer's work. The essays deal with different aspects of Ngugi's writings, ranging from background, to themes, textual study, discussion of structure of texts, language use, and the indebtedness and deployment of the indigenous oral tradition.
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