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Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Gender, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading (Paperback)
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Gender, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Reading (Paperback)
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This is the first comprehensive book-length study of gender
politics in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction. Brendon Nicholls argues
that mechanisms of gender subordination are strategically crucial
to Ngugi's ideological project from his first novel to his most
recent one. Nicholls describes the historical pressures that lead
Ngugi to represent women as he does, and shows that the novels
themselves are symptomatic of the cultural conditions that they
address. Reading Ngugi's fiction in terms of its Gikuyu allusions
and references, a gendered narrative of history emerges that
creates transgressive spaces for women. Nicholls bases his
discussion on moments during the Mau Mau rebellion when women's
contributions to the anticolonial struggle could not be reduced to
a patriarchal narrative of Kenyan history, and this interpretive
maneuver permits a reading of Ngugi's fiction that accommodates
female political and sexual agency. Nicholls contributes to
postcolonial theory by proposing a methodology for reading cultural
difference. This methodology critiques cultural practices like
clitoridectomy in an ethical manner that seeks to avoid both
cultural imperialism and cultural relativisim. His strategy of
'performative reading,' that is, making the conditions of one text
(such as folklore, history, or translation) active in another (for
example, fiction, literary narrative, or nationalism), makes
possible an ethical reading of gender and of the conditions of
reading in translation.
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