Further Reading
- Bongmba, Elias, "On Love: Literary Images of a Phenomenology of Love in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The River Between," Literature and Theology 15, no. 4 (December 2001): 373-95. (Bongmba contends that the romantic images in The River Between can be viewed as examples of a “phenomenology of love.”)
- Caminero-Santangelo, Byron, "Neocolonialism and the Betrayal Plot in A Grain of Wheat: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Re-vision of Under Western Eyes," Research in African Literatures 29, no. 1 (spring 1998): 139-52. (Caminero-Santangelo discusses the influence of Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes on Ngugi's A Grain of Wheat.)
- Hooper, Glenn, "History, Historiography and Self in Ngugi's Petals of Blood," Journal of Commonwealth Literatures 33, no. 1 (1998): 47-62. (Hooper addresses the role of history and postcolonial historiography in Petals of Blood.)
- Hubert, Susan J., "Cultural Hybridity and Social Transformation in Petals of Blood and Burger's Daughter," Midwest Quarterly 43, no. 1 (autumn 2001): 51-60. (Hubert explores the parallels between Petals of Blood and Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter.)
- Indangasi, Henry, "Ngugi's Ideal Reader and the Postcolonial Reality," Yearbook of English Studies 27 (1997): 193-200. (Indangasi speculates on the ideal audience for Ngugi's novels and discusses the author's place within the genre of postcolonial African literature.)
- Kessler, Kathy, "Rewriting History in Fiction: Elements of Postmodernism in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Later Novels," ARIEL 25, no. 2 (April 1994): 75-90. (Kessler examines the postmodern elements of A Grain of Wheat and Petals of Blood.)
- Lovesey, Oliver, "Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Postnation: The Cultural Geographies of Colonial, Neocolonial, and Postnational Space," Modern Fiction Studies 48, no. 1 (spring 2002): 139-68. (Lovesey asserts that Ngugi's vision for the future of postcolonial literature can be seen through an examination of the author's “sometimes conflicted, sometimes fetishistic approach to cultural space.”)
- McLaren, Joseph, "Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Moving the Centre and Its Relevance to Afrocentricity," Journal of Black Studies 28, no. 3 (January 1998): 386-97. (McLaren compares the political nature of Ngugi's Moving the Centre to Molefi Kete Asante's work on Afrocentricism.)
- Osei-Nyame, Kwadwo, Jr., "Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari and the Politics of Decolonization," ARIEL 30, no. 3 (July 1999): 127-40. (Osei-Nyame analyzes the treatment of Kenyan nationalist politics in Matigari.)
- Sicherman, Carol, "Ngugi's Colonial Education: ‘The Subversion … of the African Mind,’" African Studies Review 38, no. 3 (December 1995): 11-41. (Sicherman investigates the influence of Ngugi's early education on his life and work.)
- Slaymaker, William, "The Disaffections of Postcolonial Affiliations: Critical Communities and the Linguistic Liberation of Ngugi wa Thiong'o," Symploke 7, nos. 1-2 (winter-spring 1999): 188-96. (Slaymaker argues that Ngugi relies too heavily on Eurocentric theoretical discourse in his essays and critical works.)
- Wood, Carl, "Ngugi wa Thiong'o: The Writer as Dissident," Africa Report 32, no. 4 (July-August 1987): 48-9. (Wood discusses Ngugi's use of African languages throughout his body of work.)
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