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In the Name of the Mother: Reflections on Writers and Empire

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This collection of essays reflect Ngugi’s continuing interests and enthusiasms. His choice of writers is original, making us look again at their novels to address his lifelong concerns with the ways to independence, the meanings of colonialism and the takeover by neo-colonialism, and the functions of literature in political as well as literary terms.

Author(s): Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Edition: eBook
Publisher: James Currey (Boydell & Brewer)
Year: 2013

Language: English

Acknowledgement
Preface
Birth of a Literature: Heinemann, African Writers Series & I
In the Name of the Mother: Lamming & the cultural significance of ‘mother country’ in the decolonisation process
Freeing the Imagination: Lamming’s aesthetics of decolonisation
Nation in the Underground: Alex la Guma’s In the Fog of the Seasons’ End
Dialectics of Hope: Sembene’s God’s Bits of Wood
Voices & Icons: The neo-colonial in emergent African cinema
Birth of a Nation: Narrating the national question in Pepetela’s Mayombe
Orature, Class Struggle & Nationalism: Vieiera’s Luaanda & The Real Life of Domingos Xavier
Writing a National Agender: Patriarchy as domestic colonialism in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
Index