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The Postcolonial Intellectual: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in Context by Oliver Lovesey is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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Oliver Lovesey examines the conundrum of the postcolonial intellectual, a central yet critically overlooked figure in the postcolonial project. He focuses on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o within his cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts, primarily with respect to his non-fictional prose writings, including his neglected early journalism and his most recent autobiographical and theoretical work. Lovesey argues for Ngũgĩ’s position as a major postcolonial theorist who helped establish postcolonial s
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- Author
- Oliver Lovesey
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781409409007
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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