Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Gender, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading
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ISBN-13:
9780754658252
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.02.2010
Seiten:
222
Autor:
Brendon Nicholls
Gewicht:
490 g
Format:
234x156x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This is the first comprehensive book-length study of gender politics in Ngugi wa Thiong's fiction. Brendon Nicholls argues that the mechanisms of gender subordination are strategically crucial to Ngugi's ideological project, but that his fiction also creates transgressive spaces for women. Nicholls proposes a strategy of 'performative reading' that offers an ethical basis for analyzing cultural difference and critiquing cultural practices, while avoiding both cultural imperialism and cultural relativism.
Contents: Introduction; A topography of 'woman'; Clitoridectomy and Gikuyu nationalism; The landscape of insurgency; Reading against the grain (of wheat); Paternity, illegitimacy and intertextuality; The neocolony as a prostituted economy; Conclusion - prostituting translation: an ethics of postcolonial reading; Bibliography; Index.
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