Writing the Prison in African Literature Hardback
by Rachel Knighton
Part of the Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century series
Hardback
Description
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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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:202 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Publication Date:25/02/2019
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- ISBN:9781788746472
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:202 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Publication Date:25/02/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781788746472
