Writing the Prison in African Literature

Knighton, Rachel

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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. 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. 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.
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Knighton, Rachel
Titel
Writing the Prison in African Literature
Uitgever
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Jaar
2019
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
202
Gewicht
406 gr
EAN
9781788746472
Afmetingen
228 x 156 x 20 mm
Bindwijze
Hardback

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