Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ
Biographic Data
| ID | 198154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gĩchingiri |
| FAMILY NAME | Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ |
| SIGNATURE | NDĨGĨRĨGĨ G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ngũgĩ’s Peasant Roots
This chapter interrogates two misconceptions about Ngũgĩs early life and shows how his early years informed Ngũgĩ’s early writing. Ngũgĩ’s parents were not ahoi (tenants-at-will), as he once claimed. Drawing upon his recent memoirs and the ‘autobiographical moments’ in his later essay collections, I foreground Ngũgĩs birth ‘in a large peasant family’ and parse their diminishing property rights, from peasants with reasonably large land-holding to …
The mouth that ate itself
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Discovering/rediscovering “home” through Ngũgĩ’s early novels
Ngũgĩ’s early novels evoke three kinds of home for me: the hilly landscapes of The River Between, the repressive Emergency years in my home region of central Kenya in the 1950s, and the nationalist imaginary celebrated at the end of the liberation struggle. The River Between worked for me by evoking familiar landscapes and foregrounding the issues the inhabitants had to negotiate in the early years of colonial contact. The specter of darkness des…
Ngugi
Mythical hero or tragic failure? An interrogation of the Jomo Kenyatta 'black people's Moses' mystique in two Kenyan patriographies
Josiah Mwangi Kariuki’s Mau Mau Detainee (1963) and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Detained (1982) are political patriographies that represent two starkly different sides of Kenyatta, Kenya’s first president, as a political father figure. Detained intertextualizes Mau Mau Detainee in a way that voices Kariuki, Ngũgĩ’s political brother, from beyond the grave. A discussion of pertinent background on patriography frames the interrogation of the constructednes…
Popular Songs and Resistance
Partly informed by Homi Bhabha’s injunction for a postcolonial critique that animates the past, this article problematizes the British government’s recent gesture of reconciliation with victims of its torture practices in the Kenya liberation struggle in the 1950s. Illuminating the disjuncture between the gesture of reconciliation—and its official archival monument—and the British government’s delegitimization of the same struggle in the 1950s, I…
Bloodhounds at the Gate
Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ, Bloodhounds at the Gate: Trauma, Narrative Memory, and Melancholia in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Memoirs of Wartime, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Winter 2016), pp. 91-111
Character Names and Types in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Devil on the Cross and Wizard of the Crow
Spectacle and Subversive Laughter in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow
paper examines the resistant spectator in Wizard of the Crow who refuses to be awed by state power and who, by laughing at the spectacular excess, inscribes a different meaning to the spectacles. The spectator essentially contests the state’s monopoly of meaning and its performance. It will be the argument in this paper that by answering back to the monologue of the spectacle through unscripted performances including silence where they are suppos…
Response to the Review by Christine Matzke
November 01 2009 Response to the Review by Christine Matzke Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ Online ISSN: 1531-4715 Print ISSN: 1054-2043 © 2009 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2009 TDR/The Drama Review (2009) 53 (4 (204)): 14–17. https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2009.53.4.14 Connected Conten…
The Crisis of Representation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow
The Crisis of Representation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow
(2008). The Crisis of Representation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow. Journal of the African Literature Association: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 34-57
Character Names and Types in Ngugi's Devil on the Cross
No abstract
The mouth that ate itself
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Discovering/rediscovering “home” through Ngũgĩ’s early novels
Ngũgĩ’s early novels evoke three kinds of home for me: the hilly landscapes of The River Between, the repressive Emergency years in my home region of central Kenya in the 1950s, and the nationalist imaginary celebrated at the end of the liberation struggle. The River Between worked for me by evoking familiar landscapes and foregrounding the issues the inhabitants had to negotiate in the early years of colonial contact. The specter of darkness des…
Ngugi
Mythical hero or tragic failure? An interrogation of the Jomo Kenyatta 'black people's Moses' mystique in two Kenyan patriographies
Josiah Mwangi Kariuki’s Mau Mau Detainee (1963) and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Detained (1982) are political patriographies that represent two starkly different sides of Kenyatta, Kenya’s first president, as a political father figure. Detained intertextualizes Mau Mau Detainee in a way that voices Kariuki, Ngũgĩ’s political brother, from beyond the grave. A discussion of pertinent background on patriography frames the interrogation of the constructednes…
Popular Songs and Resistance
Partly informed by Homi Bhabha’s injunction for a postcolonial critique that animates the past, this article problematizes the British government’s recent gesture of reconciliation with victims of its torture practices in the Kenya liberation struggle in the 1950s. Illuminating the disjuncture between the gesture of reconciliation—and its official archival monument—and the British government’s delegitimization of the same struggle in the 1950s, I…
Bloodhounds at the Gate
Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ, Bloodhounds at the Gate: Trauma, Narrative Memory, and Melancholia in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Memoirs of Wartime, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Winter 2016), pp. 91-111
The Crisis of Representation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow
(2008). The Crisis of Representation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow. Journal of the African Literature Association: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 34-57
Character Names and Types in Ngugi's Devil on the Cross
No abstract
The Crisis of Representation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow
(2008). The Crisis of Representation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow. Journal of the African Literature Association: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 34-57
The Crisis of Representation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow
Response to the Review by Christine Matzke
November 01 2009 Response to the Review by Christine Matzke Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ Online ISSN: 1531-4715 Print ISSN: 1054-2043 © 2009 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2009 TDR/The Drama Review (2009) 53 (4 (204)): 14–17. https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2009.53.4.14 Connected Conten…
Spectacle and Subversive Laughter in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow
paper examines the resistant spectator in Wizard of the Crow who refuses to be awed by state power and who, by laughing at the spectacular excess, inscribes a different meaning to the spectacles. The spectator essentially contests the state’s monopoly of meaning and its performance. It will be the argument in this paper that by answering back to the monologue of the spectacle through unscripted performances including silence where they are suppos…
Character Names and Types in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Devil on the Cross and Wizard of the Crow
Popular Songs and Resistance
Partly informed by Homi Bhabha’s injunction for a postcolonial critique that animates the past, this article problematizes the British government’s recent gesture of reconciliation with victims of its torture practices in the Kenya liberation struggle in the 1950s. Illuminating the disjuncture between the gesture of reconciliation—and its official archival monument—and the British government’s delegitimization of the same struggle in the 1950s, I…
Bloodhounds at the Gate
Gĩchingiri Ndĩgĩrĩgĩ, Bloodhounds at the Gate: Trauma, Narrative Memory, and Melancholia in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Memoirs of Wartime, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Winter 2016), pp. 91-111
Ngugi
Mythical hero or tragic failure? An interrogation of the Jomo Kenyatta 'black people's Moses' mystique in two Kenyan patriographies
Josiah Mwangi Kariuki’s Mau Mau Detainee (1963) and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Detained (1982) are political patriographies that represent two starkly different sides of Kenyatta, Kenya’s first president, as a political father figure. Detained intertextualizes Mau Mau Detainee in a way that voices Kariuki, Ngũgĩ’s political brother, from beyond the grave. A discussion of pertinent background on patriography frames the interrogation of the constructednes…
Discovering/rediscovering “home” through Ngũgĩ’s early novels
Ngũgĩ’s early novels evoke three kinds of home for me: the hilly landscapes of The River Between, the repressive Emergency years in my home region of central Kenya in the 1950s, and the nationalist imaginary celebrated at the end of the liberation struggle. The River Between worked for me by evoking familiar landscapes and foregrounding the issues the inhabitants had to negotiate in the early years of colonial contact. The specter of darkness des…
The mouth that ate itself
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Ngũgĩ’s Peasant Roots
This chapter interrogates two misconceptions about Ngũgĩs early life and shows how his early years informed Ngũgĩ’s early writing. Ngũgĩ’s parents were not ahoi (tenants-at-will), as he once claimed. Drawing upon his recent memoirs and the ‘autobiographical moments’ in his later essay collections, I foreground Ngũgĩs birth ‘in a large peasant family’ and parse their diminishing property rights, from peasants with reasonably large land-holding to …
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