Date : 2019
Type : Livre / Book
Type : Thèse / ThesisLangue / Language : anglais / English
ISBN : 978-1-78874-647-2
EAN : 9781788746472
Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- 1938-.... -- Critique et interprétation
First -- Ruth -- 1925-1982 -- Critique et interprétation
Soyinka -- Wole -- 1934-.... -- Critique et interprétation
Saʿdāwī -- Nawāl al- -- 1931-2021 -- Critique et interprétation
Mapanje -- Jack -- 1944-.... -- Critique et interprétation
Prisons -- Dans la littérature
Emprisonnement -- Dans la littérature
Prisonniers politiques -- Afrique
Collection : Race and resistance across borders in the long twentieth century / Oxford (GB) : Peter Lang , 2017-
Résumé / Abstract : 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