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The Postcolonial Intellectual - Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context (Paperback)
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The Postcolonial Intellectual - Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context (Paperback)
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Addressing a neglected dimension in postcolonial scholarship,
Oliver Lovesey examines the figure of the postcolonial intellectual
as repeatedly evoked by the fabled troika of Said, Spivak, and
Bhabha and by members of the pan-African diaspora such as Cabral,
Fanon, and James. Lovesey's primary focus is NgA (c)gAE (c) wa
Thiong'o, one of the greatest writers of post-independence Africa.
NgA (c)gAE (c) continues to be a vibrant cultural agitator and
innovator who, in contrast to many other public intellectuals, has
participated directly in grassroots cultural renewal, enduring
imprisonment and exile as a consequence of his engagement in
political action. Lovesey's comprehensive study concentrates on NgA
(c)gAE (c)'s non-fictional prose writings, including his largely
overlooked early journalism and his most recent autobiographical
and theoretical work. He offers a postcolonial critique that
acknowledges NgA (c)gAE (c)'s complex position as a virtual
spokesperson for the oppressed and global conscience who now speaks
from a location of privilege. NgA (c)gAE (c)'s writings, Lovesey
shows, display a seemingly paradoxical consistency in their
concerns over nearly five decades at the same time that there have
been enormous transformations in his ideology and a shift in his
focus from Africa's holocaust to Africa's renaissance. Lovesey
argues that NgA (c)gAE (c)'s view of the intellectual has shifted
from an alienated, nearly neocolonial stance to a position that
allows him to celebrate intellectual activism and a return to the
model of the oral vernacular intellectual even as he challenges
other global intellectuals. Tracing the development of this notion
of the postcolonial intellectual, Lovesey argues for NgA (c)gAE
(c)'s rightful position as a major postcolonial theorist who helped
establish postcolonial studies.
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