Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-196) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction. -- Our science, their superstition: counter-reading progress in The river between / Anjali Roy. -- Defining postcoloniality: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Kenyan "Adams / Feroza Jussawalla. -- "Wash me, redeemer, and I shall be whiter than snow": Siriana and the dynamics of co-optation in The river between, Weep not, Child, and Petals of blood / Mala Pandurang. -- The colonial officer/settler: a recurring figure in Ngugi's fiction / S.W. Perera. -- Moving towards the center: postcolonial reconstruction in the plays of Ngugi wa Thiong'o / Ipshita Chanda. -- Murder, he wrote: the politics of violence in Ngugi's Petals of blood / Supriya M. Nair. -- Devil on the cross: problematics and creativity / Prayag D. Tripathi. -- Reading Ngugi in translation: an Indian response to Ngugi's Devil on the cross and Matigari / C. Vijayasree. -- "This war is not ended": anti-imperialist struggle from Mau Mau to Matigari / S.V. Srinivas. -- Whose english is it anyway? / Dhruba Gupta. -- Africa rediscovered: glimpses into Ngugi's Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams / Kancherla Indrasena Reddy. -- A conversation with Ngugi wa Thiong'o/ S. Venkat Rao. -- The writer as activist: an iterview with Ngugi wa Thiong'o / T. Vijay Kumar. -- A checklist of South Asian scholorship on Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1975-1997 / Bernth Lindfors and Bala Kothandaraman.
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