Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Amitayu Chakraborty works as Assistant Professor of English at Durgapur Women’s College. He did his PhD from Visva- Bharati in 2017. His doctoral dissertation was on Ngugi wa Thiong’o. He has a keen interest in postcolonial studies.

Introduction

Section One: Why Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Again!)?

Section Two: Conceptualising “Nationalism” and “Ethnicity”

Section Three: Nation- Building, Political Tribalism, and Moral Ethnicity in Kenya/Africa

Section Four: About the Book

1 The Phase of Anxiety (1950s– 1960s)

Section One: Gendered Anxieties in The Black Hermit

Section Two: Clitoridectomal Anxieties in The River Between

Section Three: Anxieties, Conflicts, and Violence in Weep Not, Child

2 The Phase of Polemics (1960s– 1970s)

Section One: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and the Trials of the Unheroic in A Grain of Wheat

Section Two: Moral Ethnicity and Marxist Revolution in Petals of Blood

Section Three: Marxism and Mythopoeia in The Trial of Dedan Kimathi

3 The Phase of Defiance (1970s onwards)

Section One: Subaltern Self- Mastery and Dialogic Resistance in I Will Marry When I Want

Section Two: Myth, Ethnicity, and Plurality in Devil on the Cross and Matigari

Section Three: Globalectic Defiance in Wizard of the Crow

Conclusion

The Outcome: A Pursuit of Globalectics