How Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Shifted from Class Analysis to a Neo-Colonialist Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4890489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Josef Gugler (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 329-339 |
| Publication date | 1994-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x00012787 |
| OpenAlex | W2056875104 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has established himself as one of the leading second-generation African writers. His first two novels, Weep Not, Child (London, Heinemann, 1964) and The River Between (London, Heinemann, 1965), written while an undergraduate at Makerere University College, Kampala, brought him recognition as the foremost East African writer. His third novel, A Grain of Wheat (London, Heinemann, 1967), established James Ngugi, as he then called himself, as one of the most distinguished literary voices from Africa. There was a long pause before Ngũgĩ published his next novel, Petals of Blood (London, Heinemann, 1977). The change in name signalled that during the intervening years he had developed a radical new perspective on Kenya, the explicit locale of all his writing
Art · Art history · Class (philosophy) · Epistemology · Humanities · Literature · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Working class · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2004 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |