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Journal articles on the topic "Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1938-....)"

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Ogude, James, and Simon Gikandi. "Ngugi wa Thiong'o." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 36, no. 2 (2002): 380. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4107218.

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Jackson, Kennell, and Simon Gikandi. "Ngugi wa Thiong'o." International Journal of African Historical Studies 34, no. 3 (2001): 680. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3097577.

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Eyoh, Hansel Nolumbe. "2. Ngugi wa Thiong'o." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 21, no. 1 (1986): 162–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198948602100118.

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Trivedi, Harish. "Ngugi wa Thiong'o in conversation." Wasafiri 18, no. 40 (2003): 5–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690050308589858.

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Heligson, Robert, and G. D. Killam. "Critical Perspectives on Ngugi wa Thiong'o." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 20, no. 2 (1986): 296. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/484886.

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Granqvist. "Ngugi wa Thiong'o in/and 2006." Research in African Literatures 42, no. 4 (2011): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.42.4.124.

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Smith, Pamela Olubunmi, and G. D. Killam. "Critical Perspectives on Ngugi wa Thiong'o." World Literature Today 59, no. 4 (1985): 648. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40142145.

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Duodu, Cameron. "Secret party leads to arrests." Index on Censorship 15, no. 6 (1986): 18–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03064228608534114.

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Rodrigues, Angela Lamas, and Ngugi wa Thiongo. "Beyond Nativism: An Interview with Ngugi wa Thiong'o." Research in African Literatures 35, no. 3 (2004): 161–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2004.0074.

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Sharma, Govind Narain. "Third world humanism: Munshi Premchand and Ngugi wa Thiong'o." World Literature Written in English 27, no. 2 (1987): 296–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449858708589031.

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Yavoucko, Cyriaque Robert. "Permanence de la notion d'engagement chez Ngugi Wa Thiong'o." Paris 3, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA030153.

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L'engagement de la litterature africaine remonte a la publication de ba touala par rene maran en 1921. Cet engagement s'est caracterise par une prise de position frontale contre les pouvoirs coloniaux et la revendication de la liberation de l'afrique et des africains. Dans les cercles des critiques litteraires et d'observateurs de la litterature africane, des voix s'etaient elevees pour s'interroger sur l'avenir de cette litterature a l'avenement des independances en 1960. Les interogations reposaient sur la nature de la litterature africaine d'avant les independances, l'epoque ou son theme central etait la contestation de l'ordre colonial, la lutte pour la liberation de l'afrique. A leurs yeux, le caractere engage de cette litterature n'avait plus sa raison d'etre a l'ascession a l'independance des etats africains les oeuvres de ngugi wa thiong'o, ecrivain de la periode postcoloniale, montrent par leurs themes, leurs objectifs, que la lutte pour la veritable liberation de l'afrique et des africains continue apres le les independances. Il demontre que la prise du pouvoir par la petite bourgeoisie africaine, alliee au capitalisme, perpetue l'alienation l'exploitation de l'afrique et des africains
Commitment in the african litterature goes back to 1921 that saw the publication of batouala by rene maria n. This commitment was based on open opposition to colonial powers and the revendication of the liberation of african states to sovereignty in 1960, literary critics of the african literature questioned its future on the ground of the fact that its central theme had been since the refusal of colonial order and the struggle for the liberation of africa. For them, the proclamation of inde pendances has ended its commitled trend. The writings of ngugi wa thiong'o, a post colonial writer, show by their theines and objectives that the struggle for the liberation of africa still goes on. He sustains that the takeover by a small african emiddle-class allied to capitalism perpetuates the alienation and the exploitation of africa. For him african litterature and a frican writers must remain resolutely committed on the side of the peasants and the workers in order to fight the african middle-class and seek the way to topple capitalism
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Mackaya, Hubert. "Réalités historiques et univers romanesque dans l'oeuvre de Ngugi Wa Thiong'o." Montpellier 3, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986MON30056.

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L'ensemble des ecrits de ngugi a, pour arriere-plan, l'histoire du kenya. Weep not, child et the river between traitent de la vie des kikuyu avant et apres 1870, date de l'implantation des missionnaires au kenya. C'est le conflit des cultures du a l'opposition radicale entre les systemes des valeurs occidental et indigene. La guerre mau-mau des annees 1950 est au centre de weep not, child. La spoliation des terres est la principale cause de ce conflit. Ngugi rejoint ainsi l'histoire. A partir de 1967, l'ecrivain consacre son oeuvre a l'examen de la gestion de l'independance du pays. A grain of wheat marque la fin de l'idealisme et de l'optimisme des premiers romans. Avec a grain of wheat, petals of blood et devil on the cross, ngugi commente l'actualite quotidienne. L'auteur decrit une communaute kenyane, ou s'affrontent les dirigeants, excessivement riches et les masses, de plus en plus pauvres. L'auteur predit une autre revolte du type mau-mau. Le marxisme guide, ici, son analyse. Cependant, ngugi n'est ni un historien, ni un simple chroniqueur. Ses oeuvres sont, avant tout, des oeuvres de fiction, ou les evenements reels voisinent avec des situations fictives. La facon dont ces evenements sont narres constitue l'aspect le plus frappant de son oeuvre. Ayant choisi un mode de narration oblique, les histoires s'interrompent continuellement et le roman devient, alors, une suite d'enchassements un ensemble d'entonnoirs contenus les uns dans les autres. Le stream of consciousness est l'autre point fort de cette narration. La symbolique participe egalement au developpement des themes. A tout cela, l'auteur a su fondre une temporalite qui s'articule autour de la trialectique passe-present-futur
History, especially kenyan history is the background of ngugi"s works of fiction. His first two novels the river between and weep not, child deal with the kikuyu way of life before and after 1870, when european first arrived in kenya. In the river between, ngugi is mainly concerned with the bump of civilisations that followed european settlement. Mau-mau war which took place in the 1950's is the main theme of weep not, child land expropriation is the cause ngugi gives to that conflicts. Ngugi's opinions fit with reality. Since 1967, ngugi is mostly concerned with the way kenya took after her uhuru. In his last three novels a grain of wheat, petals of blood and devil on the cross, the author depicts every day life in kenya and describes how problems affect people. To him. Kenyan society consists in two conflicting classes : those who lead the country and the masses. Leaders keep on getting richer and richer, while the masses go on becoming poorer and poorer. Indeed, says ngugi, 1952 revolution was a failure and another mau-mau-like war is unavoidable. In spite, of his concern with kenya's history and with every day life in kenya; ngugi remains a novelist and his work must be regarded as a work of fiction. He is not a historian. This is why in his novels historical facts and fictive situations are placed side by side. The way themes are related is one of the most striking points in ngugi's novels. Stories are often embedded and the novels become a series of "nests" containing one another. The stream of consciousness plays also an important part in his narration. So do symbols. Time is another concern for ngugi. For gim, past, present and future are linked
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Schwerdt, Dianne. "Reconstructing identity in postcolonial African fiction / individualism and community in the novels of Ngugi wa Thiong'o / Dianne O. Schwerdt." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs4148.pdf.

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Bejjit, Nourdin. "The publishing of African literature : Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the Heinemann African writers series 1962-1988." Thesis, Open University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495995.

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Since its launch in 1962, Heinemann Educational Books' African Writers Series has played a crucial role in the dissemination of African literature worldwide, and contributed to the creation of critical awareness among readers and critics of its distinct qualities and values. While the creative works of celebrated African writers such as Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong'o have enjoyed a wide popularity, and elicited an important amount of critical attention, the role of HEB in promoting the literary careers of a whole generation of African writers has rarely been discussed and analysed.
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Sene, Abib. "Sémiotique de l'espace et sémantique du discours littéraire dans les oeuvres de Ngugi wa Thiong'o, George Lamming et William Boyd." Thesis, Tours, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOUR2030/document.

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Les sociétés africaines, caribéennes, et anglaises présentent, quoique partageant, d’une manière formelle, des caractéristiques, des profils divers en raisons des spécificités des milieux physiques dans lesquels elles se déploient. Ainsi, il a été important, dans ce travail, d’établir un lien nombrileux entre l’espace et le discours. En effet, l’analyse sémiotique de l’espace littéraire dans les oeuvres de Ngugi wa Thiong’o, George Lamming et William Boyd a conduit à une conclusion qui prend valeur d’importance dans des événements et des réalités politico-sociales. Etudiée sous un angle sémiotique, la nomenclature de ces réalités fait sens dans des contextes et cotextes communicationnels à travers lesquels se lisent des aspects pragmatiques. Les toits langagiers et les contenus énonciatifs laissent observer des logiques positionnelles et transformationnelles, lesquelles épousent fondamentalement des aspects de la continuité et de la discontinuité. Et cela fait du message textuel un récit anthropologique relaté dans un univers interactionnel qui forme un tout de signification
African, Caribbean, and English societies, in spite of the fact that they share common features, remain different in their profile on the grounds of the particularities of the physical spaces that witness their expressions and the specific goals they target within historical, cultural, political and economic data that form out their social stratification. In this way, it becomes important, as a main idea of this work, to put on surface the intrinsic link between space and discourse. A semiotic analysis of literary space in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s, George Lamming’s and William Boyd’s works has led to a concluding argument which highlights social and political realities. Read through a semiotic stand, the nomenclature of these events and realities root their meaning in communicating scenarios which portray pragmatic aspects. Levels of language and nature of messages help to observe some logic of positions and transformations that imply continuity and discontinuity dimensions. What affects to the literary message an anthropological account narrated into a framework of interactions that articulate a totalizing significance
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Erapu, Laban Omella. "A study of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's later novels to assess his adaptation of dramatic techniques and Gikuyu oral traditions to the requirements of fiction." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002278.

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This thesis examines Ngugi wa Thiong'o's later writings in order to establish the nature of his quest for a people's literature. It illustrates how the author attempts to break the barriers between traditional oral forms and the relatively new written forms in addressing a basically "illiterate" audience. The research begins with an exploration of Gikuyu oral literature as an essential background to Ngugi's later dramatic and fictional writings as distinct from his earlier literary works in which he initiates the dominant quest for a more just society. Ngugi's return to these roots constitutes the central "homecoming" that characterizes his search for new forms. The analysis is conducted through three significant chronological stages representing Ngugi's writings over a period of about a decade from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Each stage starts with a play and performance followed by a parallel novel, the first pair written in English and the subsequent ones in Gikuyu. The three stages - designated Transition, Homecoming and Realization - mark Ngugi's involvement in the promotion of Gikuyu culture and orature, both as a source of inspiration and as a cause to which he fully dedicates himself. The transitional stage depicts the convergence between conventional and traditional oral literary forms with which Ngugi begins to experiment. The second stage introduces significant departures as Ngugi begins to use the Gikuyu language as his primary medium of creative expression. The final stage demonstrates his ultimate assertion of the primacy of orality over the written word as a dynamic agent of transmission. The thesis concludes that Ngugi wa Thiong'o in these later works - while leaving the possibilities of his vision of a "New Earth" unfulfilled pioneers the African writers' climb down from an "ivory tower" to deal with the realities of the experience of the predominantly non-reading African masses, acknowledged as both recipients of and active participants in the relatively new written literature which purports to speak for their experiences and their times.
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Kane, Bouna. "L'Interculturalité au regard du roman victorien et africain : essai d'analyse des romans de Chinua Achebe et Ngugi wa Thiong'o au miroir de Thomas Hardy et Joseph Conrad." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030011.

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L’étude de l’hybridité culturelle en littérature est restée liée à la théorie qui définit les littératures postcoloniales en termes d’opposition avec l’Occident. Dans cette étude, nous avons tenté de porter un regard différent, en allant au-delà du « writing back to the center ». Nous ne négligeons pas les différentes positions révélées par la critique mais nous avons choisi, à travers cette approche comparative, de montrer que l’Afrique est un acteur à part entière d’une littérature universelle. En s’appropriant les techniques littéraires de Thomas Hardy et Joseph Conrad, les écrivains africains confirment la porosité des cultures et la communication entre des peuples d’horizons divers. En comparant le clan écossais et la tribu africaine, nous avons trouvé plusieurs similitudes en termes d’organisation sociale et de mode de vie. Comme Scott et Hardy, Ngugi et Achebe tirent la substance de leurs romans du folklore et des traditions populaires de leurs communautés. Les romanciers africains et victoriens ont une claire conscience du malaise de l’individu et montrent combien le destin peut être cruel envers lui
The study of cultural hybridity in literature remained tied to a theory which defines postcolonial literatures in terms of their oppositional relationship with the West. In this thesis, we attempted to go beyond the “writing back to the center”. We have not ignored the debate over standard criticism but we have chosen to demonstrate by means of this comparative study that the African novel is part of a larger fictional universe. By appropriating the techniques of the Victorian literary tradition associated with Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad, African writers create a useful device for developing greater understanding and improved communication among people from different cultural, racial and ethnic groups. We found striking similarities between the Scottish clan and the African tribe in terms of social organisation and way of life. Like Scott and Hardy, Ngugi and Achebe draw the substance of their novels from the folklore and popular traditions of their communities. African and Victorian novelists have a clear awareness of the human predicament and show how fate can be cruel to the individual
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Ndong, N'Na Ygor-Juste Naumann Michel. "La folie dans le roman africain du monde anglophone (Achebe, Ngugi, Awoonor, Armah, Head) /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2009. http://biblioweb.u-cergy.fr/theses/08CERG0384.pdf.

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VUNINGOMA, JAMES-FRANCI. "L'engagement dans l'oeuvre de ngugi wa thiong'o." Nice, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989NICE2016.

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L'analyse thematique de l'engagement dans l'oeuvre de ngugi wa thiong'o est etudiee a travers cinq romans et quatre pieces de theatre. Elle est enrichie par les travaux extra-litteraires (les essais et les interviews). Le travail est divise en 3 parties. La 1ere partie definit le theme d'engagement et recherche ses manifestations a travers les attitudes et les reactions telles qu'elles sont apercues au kenya dans la periode coloniale et post independance. Cela donne l'occasion a ngugi wa thiong'o de recreer des situations dans lesquelles les forces fictives ne laissent aux personnages aucun choix que de choisir chacun son cote. La 2e partie aborde la question de la langue, son pouvoir de communication et sa relation avec le theme d'engagement. Elle examine l'experience de la communication traditionnelle a travers les chansons, la danse, les proverbes. Dans le schema de communication nous y decouvrirons le nouveau public de ngugi wa thiong'o et les problemes de la publication en langue africaine a travers l'exemple de la langue kikuyu. La 3e partie etudie le role symbolique des mots, des images et des symboles. Elle examine les aspects narratifs de l'oeuvre et aborde ensuite l'etude de point de vue. Donc les personnages etudies n'ont d'autres solutions que de choisir chacun son camp. Cela apparait dans leurs prises de position a travers leurs propos et leurs actions. Leur createur n'est pas epargne car il est place dans le role civique ou il est contraint d'agir en pleine contradiction dans la situation conflictuelle de sa societe
The thematic study of commitment in ngugi wa thiong'o's work is analysed in five novels and four plays. The work is enriched by the extra-literary work of essays and interviews. We have divided it into three parts. The irst part seeks to define commitment and analyses its manifestations in the attitudes and the reactions during colonial and post independence periods in kenya. This gives to ngugi wa thiong'o an occasion to recreate fictional forces in which his characters reveal their choices as they react to the various situations. The 2nd part looks into the language issue and its communicating power in relationship to the theme of commitment. It surveys the use of the oral traditional means of communication (songs, dances, proverbs and sayings). The analysis of the schematic mode of communication introduces us to the issue of the new public of ngugi wa thiong'o and looks into the problems of publishing in an african language, the case of the kikuyu language. The 3rd part explores the symbolic universe of words, images and symbols. It surveys the art of story telling and analyses the point of view. So, most characters studied have no way out but to choose sides. This is found in their words and their actions. Their creator is not spared either for we find him playing at the civic role in the midst of contradictions and conflicts in his society
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Nwankwo, Chimalum. "The works of Ngugi wa Thiong'o : towards the kingdom of woman and man /." Ikeja : Longman Nigeria, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35599610x.

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Books on the topic "Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1938-....)"

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Gikandi, Simon. Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Williams, Patrick. Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Manchester University Press, 1998.

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Gikandi, Simon. Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Williams, Patrick. Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Manchester University Press, 1999.

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Ngugi wa Thiong'o: L'homme et l'œuvre. Présence africaine, 1991.

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Trigona, Prospero. Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Da fede a rivoluzione. Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 1991.

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Lar, Isaac B. Conflicting symbols in the novels of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Deka Publications, 1998.

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Yolande, Cantù, and Ng~ug~i wa Thiong'o 1938-, eds. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, The river between: A critical view. Collins in association with the British Council, 1985.

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Thiongʼo, Ngũgĩ wa. Ngugi wa Thiong'o speaks: Interviews with the Kenyan writer. Africa World Press, 2006.

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Thiongʼo, Ngũgĩ wa. Ngugi wa Thiong'o speaks: Interviews with the Kenyan writer. Africa World Press, 2005.

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Book chapters on the topic "Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1938-....)"

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Geider, Thomas. "Ngugi wa Thiong'o." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL). J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_15700-1.

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Brückner, Thomas. "Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Caitaani Mutharaba-Ini." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL). J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_15701-1.

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Brückner, Thomas. "Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Petals of Blood." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL). J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_16660-1.

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Schulze-Engler, Frank. "Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Das essayistische Werk." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL). J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_16661-1.

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Schulze-Engler, Frank. "Ngugi wa Thiong'o: A Grain of Wheat." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL). J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_16659-1.

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"NGUGI WA THIONG'O (1938-)." In Postcolonial African Writers. Routledge, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203058558-38.

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"Ngugi wa Thiong’o 1938." In Reader's Guide to Literature in English. Routledge, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203303290-58.

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"Ngugi wa Thiong'o." In Radical Street Performance. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315005140-94.

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"Preface." In Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Cambridge University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511554117.001.

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"Introduction: reading texts and contexts." In Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Cambridge University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511554117.003.

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