Ngugi wa Thiong’o: An Anthology of Recent Criticism

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This critical anthology of recent essays interrogates Ngugi wa Thiong’o both as a trailblazing creative writer and a pioneering intellectual activist. It problematizes and revaluates several major aspects of Ngugi’s craft and concerns including his critique of today’s nation states and contribution to postcolonial theorizing, his aesthetics of literature as a weapon against multiple structures of oppression, his commitment to the processes of cultural and linguistic decolonization, his use of a wide range of allegorical narrative modes to counter the pressure of the global flow of hegemonic capital, and his optimistic faith that ‘measures human progress in terms of the quality of human life’.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mala Pandurang

Mala Pandurang is Head, Department of English, Dr. BMN College, Mumbai. She has taught at the postgraduate departments of the SNDT Womenâ€™s Universities and the University of Miumbai. She is also a Post-doctoral Fellow of the Alexander von Humaboldt Foundation, Germany. Her current areas of research interest are diaspora and gender studies. Her publications include Postcolonial African Fiction: A Crisis of Cosciousness (1997), Articulating Gender (Co-ed) (2000), and Vikram Seth: Multiple Locations, Multiple Affiliations (2002). and Mediating Indian Writing in English: German Responses (co-ed.) (Jaipur: 2005 and Berlin: 2006).