Postcolonial African Literature - Jeannine DeLombard (essay date 1996)
Jeannine DeLombard (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: DeLombard, Jeannine. English Postcoloniality: Literatures from Around the World, Radhika Mohanram and Gita Rajan, pp. 63-76. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.
[In the following essay, DeLombard uses the writing and critical career of Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o as a representative example of postcoloniality and its relationship to the development of East African literature.]
Addressing the topic of postcoloniality and its relationship to East African literature, one immediately faces a dilemma. Such a discussion must acknowledge in some depth the work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o—East Africa's most celebrated author and one of the continent's most outspoken and controversial critics of neo-colonialism and cultural imperialism—without ignoring or slighting the work of other, lesser known but equally important authors from Ngugi's own Kenya, as well as neighboring Tanzania and Uganda. This...
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