Mirroring the Subtext: Postmodernism in Ngugi wa Thiongo's Wizard of the Crow

dc.contributor.authorMaina, Oscar Macharia
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-17T12:52:03Z
dc.date.available2014-01-17T12:52:03Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.descriptionDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4314%2Fjolte.v1i1.41757en_US
dc.description.abstractThis reading of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow attempts to place the text in the postmodern writing tradition. We point out how surrealistic features are utilized to enhance the themes, style, and the author's conundrums. Ngugi has been accused of focusing on ideologies at the expense of creativity. Wizard of the Crow is, however, a purely artistic text where Ngugi's creativity is plausibly developed, without hindering his ideological expression. The fact that the text was originally written in Gikuyu helps the writer draw from the resource of traditional discourse, and arguably enable not only Gikuyu culture, but also their worldview and history negotiate for a global position in line with emerging postmodern imperatives.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Language, Technology and Entrepreneurship in Africa Vol. 1 (1) 2007 pp. 67-74en_US
dc.identifier.issn1998-1279
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/8662
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Language, Technology and Entrepreneurship in Africaen_US
dc.subjectLiteratureen_US
dc.subjectFictionen_US
dc.subjectPostmodernismen_US
dc.subjectWizard of the crowen_US
dc.titleMirroring the Subtext: Postmodernism in Ngugi wa Thiongo's Wizard of the Crowen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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