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Writing the Prison in African Literature: Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century

Autor Rachel Knighton
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 feb 2019
This book examines a selection of prison memoirs by five renowned African writers: Ngugi wa Thiong¿o, Ruth First, Wole Soyinka, Nawal El Saadawi and Jack Mapanje. Detained across the continent from the 1960s onward due to their writing and political engagement, each writer¿s memoir forms a crucial yet often overlooked part of their wider literary work. The author analyses the varied and unique narrative strategies used to portray the prison, formulating a theory of prison memoir as genre that reads the texts alongside postcolonial, trauma, life-writing and prison theory. The book also illustrates the importance of these memoirs in the telling of their historical moment, from apartheid South Africa to post-independence Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Malawi.
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ISBN-13: 9781788746472
ISBN-10: 1788746473
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 156 x 228 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Peter Lang Copyright AG
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Rachel Anna Knighton completed her PhD in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, for which she was awarded a Graduate Research Scholarship by Girton College. Her PhD research forms the basis of this book.

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This book examines a selection of prison memoirs by five renowned African writers - Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ruth First, Wole Soyinka, Nawal El Saadawi and Jack Mapanje - who were detained from the 1960s onward due to their political engagement.