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Writing the prison in African literature
- Title
- Writing the prison in African literature / Rachel Knighton.
- Author
- Knighton, Rachel, 1989-
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang Ltd, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- x, 198 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- 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--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Race and resistance across borders in the long 20th century ; volume 5
- Uniform Title
- Race and resistance across borders in the long twentieth century ; 5.
- Subjects
- African literature (English)
- Prisoners' writings, African (English)
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-
- First, Ruth, 1925-1982
- Saʻdāwī, Nawāl
- Mapanje, Jack
- Biography as a literary form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Africa
- Soyinka, Wole > Criticism and interpretation
- Prisoners in literature
- African literature (English) > 20th century > History and criticism
- 1900-1999
- Prisons in literature
- Prisoners' writings, African (English) > History and criticism
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938- > Criticism and interpretation
- First, Ruth, 1925-1982 > Criticism and interpretation
- Saʻdāwī, Nawāl > Criticism and interpretation
- Mapanje, Jack > Criticism and interpretation
- Political prisoners > Africa > Intellectual life
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The individual and the collective in Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's Detained -- Prison memoir and perspectival variation in Ruth First's 117 days -- Narrating psychological breakdown and political opposition in Wole Soyinka's The man died -- Liberation and the body in Nawal el Saadawi's Memoirs from the women's prison -- Creating a prison poetics in Jack Mapanje's And crocodiles are hungry at night -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-940
- ISBN
- 9781788746472
- 1788746473
- 9781788746489 (ePDF) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781788746496 (ePub) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018049938
- OCLC
- 1081365853
- Author
- Knighton, Rachel, 1989- author.
- Title
- Writing the prison in African literature / Rachel Knighton.
- Publisher
- Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang Ltd, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Race and resistance across borders in the long 20th century ; volume 5Race and resistance across borders in the long twentieth century ; 5.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-940