‘The master’s dance to the master’s voice revolutionary nationalism and women’s representation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o

With these affirmative words, the Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o points to the strong position that women characters have held in his work over the years. It is a position virtually unique in Anglophone African literature. Not only is it the case that the internationally renowned African writers co...

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Published inStories of Women p. 42
Main Author ELLEKE BOEHMER
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Manchester University Press 19.07.2013
Subjects
African culture
African literature
African studies
Anthropology
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Biological development
Biological sciences
Biology
Developmental biology
Ethnography
Ethnology
Flowers
Gender equality
Gender identity
Gender politics
Gender roles
Gender studies
Group identity
Growth and development
Human populations
Human societies
Men
Mothers
Music
Music genres
National identity
Nationalism
Performing arts
Persons
Petals
Plant development
Plant reproduction
Popular music
Popular songs
Population studies
Psychology
Social movements
Social psychology
Social sciences
Sociology
Women
Womens liberation
Womens rights movements
Womens songs
Working women
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Summary:With these affirmative words, the Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o points to the strong position that women characters have held in his work over the years. It is a position virtually unique in Anglophone African literature. Not only is it the case that the internationally renowned African writers concentrating on themes of national self-assertion have by and large been male, but that in their work the emancipation of women has generally been rated as of secondary importance relative to the liberation of nations or of peoples. For this reason Ngugi’s exertions to include women in his vision of a Kenya
DOI:10.2307/j.ctt155j4ws.6