Wizard of the Crow(2006) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o as a postcommunist novel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2179229 |
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| Authors | Dobrota Pucherova (0000-0003-3789-6317, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-19 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2018.1526819 |
| OpenAlex | W2901945708 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
This article analyses the 2006 novel Wizard of the Crow by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o in a post-Cold War context as a postcommunist picaresque novel. Using the instruments of postcommunist and world-systems theory and comparing the novel to Eastern and Central European postcommunist writing, it shows how the concerns and aesthetics of both post-totalitarian discourses overlap. It is argued that postcolonial and postcommunist literature describes a crisis of identity symptomatic of all post-dependence cultures and represents discursive resistance to global capitalist modernity in which the meaning of the truth (historical, moral, cultural) has been destabilized. Emphasizing that any ideology can be a source of violence and colonization, Ngũgĩ's novel, like the novel of his Slovakian counterpart Peter Pišťanek, calls for the breaking down of the traditional political binaries – Marxist/liberal, communist/fascist, socialist/capitalist, patriarchal/feminist – opening up space for new meanings
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Communism · Context (archaeology · Identity (music · Ideology · Literature · Marxist philosophy · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious Studies
Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
Descolonitzar la ment
Postcolonialism
Narrating Post/Communism
From the National to the Global
Intellectuals in East-central Europe
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow and Postcolonial Pedagogy
The Cybogre Manifesto
Arresting Time, Resisting Arrest
Wizards, Superwonders, and a Fictional African State
Introduction
On the Postcolony
African Socialisms and Postsocialisms
| Highly cited | No |
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